You will find "hellenistic" refers to the period *after* the flowering of
classical attic greek thought and literature (Plato, Aristotle, Thycludes
etc): ie hellenistic and classical is not the same.
Hellenistic describes the time between when Alexander conquered half the
globe and when greek became the lingua franca of intellectuals in the newly
enlarged *roman* empire, much at Latin was in Medieval times and the
renaiscance. IE 323 TO 300 BC.
But I expect you would find this information in any good dictionary of
philosophy.
From: Enliten3@aol.com
Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:13:10 EDT
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Subject: MD Query
Hey Group:
Was reading a short summary on Socrates and just wondering - What is the
basis for the term "Hellenistic"? Does it refer to the period of time of
the
pre-Socatics through Aristotle? Is it a "golden age" of Greece? And what
is
the root of the word? I think a portion of the Greek empire was once known
as "Hellas", but I could be wrong...and are "Hellenic" and "Hellenistic"
interchangeable? Put your thinking caps on...
Clarke
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