wikt Hellenism may refer to Hellenic studies Hellenistic civilization Hellenistic period , in Greek antiquity Hellenistic Greece Hellenization , the spread of Greek culture over foreign peoples Hellenistic philosophy in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism Hellenistic art Hellenism neoclassicism , an esthetic movement in 18th and 19th century England and Germany Hellenism Academia , the academic study of ancient Greece a scholar in this discipline may be called a Hellenist Greek people and their culture in general In the context of the ancient grammarians, the proper use of the Greek language A combination of all, or some, of the above in synthesis, as a personal philosophy or world view. disambig cs Hel nismus rozcestn k simple Hellenism disambiguation sh Helenizam ... more details
Academics who study ancient or modern Greece may be referred to as Hellenists , and thus the study of Greece may be referred to as Hellenism . This should not be confused with the use of Hellenism Greek culture Hellenism to mean the spread of Greek culture, nor to describe the neoclassic Hellenism neoclassicism Hellenism movement. External links http wihs.uwaterloo.ca Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies Category Academia Category Modern Greek studies Edu stub ca Hel lenisme de Gr zistik fr Hell nisme nds Gr zistik ... more details
cleanup linkrot date August 2011 Orphan date February 2009 The Guardians of Hellenism Greek language Greek is a series of album s featuring recordings of traditional Music of Greece Greek music by region, performed by the Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble. Albums Years of release are in parentheses Vol. 1 1998 ref cite web url http www.artistdirect.com nad store artist album 0,,361099,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 1 by Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble ARTISTdirect.com Shop, Listen, Download publisher Artistdirect.com date accessdate 2012 02 20 ref Chios, Mytilene, Samos, Ikaria Vol. 2 1998 ref http www.answers.com topic guardians of hellenism vol 2 ref Limnos, Samothrace, Imvros, Tenedos Vol. 3 Smyrna, Ionia Vol. 4 1999 ref cite web url http www.artistdirect.com nad store artist album 0,,868184,00.html title The Guardians of Hellenism Vol 4 by Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble ARTISTdirect.com Shop, Listen, Download publisher Artistdirect.com date accessdate 2012 02 20 ref Pontus, Cappadocia Vol. 5 2000 ref cite web url http www.artistdirect.com nad store artist album 0,,873775,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 5 by Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble ARTISTdirect.com Shop, Listen, Download publisher Artistdirect.com date accessdate 2012 02 20 ref Constantinople ... album 0,,873776,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 6 by Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble ARTISTdirect.com ... album 0,,905609,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 7 by Hellenic Music Archives Ensemble ... nad store artist album 0,,981604,00.html title The Guardians of Hellenism Vol 9 by Hellenic Music ... nad store artist album 0,,1001834,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 10 by Hellenic ... nad store artist album 0,,1012583,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 11 by Hellenic ... nad store artist album 0,,1036342,00.html title Guardians of Hellenism Vol 12 Cyprus ... store artist album 0,,1601980,00.html title The Guardians of Hellenism Vol 13 Crete by Hellenic Music ... more details
exemplars of Hellenism. Drawing from Winckelmann either directly or derivatively , these poets ... of Hellenism than the removal of the Parthenon Marbles from Greece to England by Lord ... of Hellenism, none more famous than the social theory of Matthew Arnold in his book, Culture and Anarchy . For Arnold, Hellenism was the opposite of Hebraism . The former term stood for spontaneity ... support for the Greek cause. This particular brand of Hellenism, pertaining to modern rather than ... . Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press, 1965. Aske, Martin. Keats and Hellenism An Essay . Cambridge ..., the Elgin Marbles, and Post Revolutionary Hellenism. Foundations, 3.1 2008 31 64. Clarke, G.W., ed. Rediscovering Hellenism The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination . London Cambridge ... Press, 1945. Comet, Noah. Letitia Landon and Romantic Hellenism. The Wordsworth Circle, 37.2 2006 ... England. Austin University of Texas Press, 1969. Dowling, Linda. Hellenism and Homosexuality .... Silent Urns Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity . Stanford Stanford University Press, 2000. Goldhill, Simon. Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism . London Cambridge University ... of Missouri Press, 1995. Helmick, E.T. Hellenism in Byron and Keats. Keats Shelley Memorial ... Hellenism . Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1931. Marchand, Suzanne. Down from Olympus Archaeology ... of Romantic Hellenism in English Literature, 1732 1786 . New York Octagon Books, 1969. Turner .... English Romantic Hellenism, 1700 1824. Manchester Manchester University Press, 1982. Winterer ... more details
Politics of Greece Image Komci small.jpg thumb left The party s logo. The Hellenism Party lang el was a Greece Greek political party with a strongly patriotic platform, founded in 1981. Sotiris Sofianopoulos was the President of the Hellenism Party since its foundation. During the elections, the party never gathered more than 0.3 . In 2004, the party collaborated with the Popular Orthodox Rally , in the Greek elections of that year. Electoral results class wikitable style background color C9C9C9 colspan 9 Results 1996 2000 br small year links to election page small style width 20px Year style width 140px Type of Election style width 60px Votes style width 20px style width 20px Mandates Greek legislative election, 1996 1996 center Parliament center 12,205 center 0.18 center 0 European Parliament election, 1999 Greece 1999 center European Parliament center 16,608 center 0.26 center 0 Greek legislative election, 2000 2000 center Parliament center 6,272 center 0.09 center 0 External links http www.komma ellinismou.gr Official site inactive since 2006 Category Political parties established in 1981 Category Nationalist parties in Greece Category Political parties disestablished in 2004 Greece party stub ca Partit de l Hel lenisme el ... more details
Image Ellinismos seal.jpg thumb 130px right The seal of Ecumenical Hellenism. wikinews Program Ecumenical Hellenism starts second decade of action The Ecumenical Hellenism program lang el , is a non profit, non governmental company. It is the result of the cooperation between the Athens based publishing house Greek National Line and the Karipion Melathron Institute for National and Religious Studies of Thessaloniki . The program started its function in 1996, as a result of the initiative of the businessman Stavros Panousopoulos and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Professor, Athanasios Angelopoulos . The aim of the Ecumenical Hellenism is to promote Greek interests abroad as well as to publish editions regarding Greek culture and Orthodoxy . The program mainly operates within the Greek diaspora . During its function, the program organised missions all over the world and operated under the patronage of the President of Greece President of the Hellenic Republic as well as under the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch and of the Church of Greece . External links http www.gnl.gr gnl en home en.htm, Homepage of Ecumenical Hellenism program n World conference of expatriate Greeks to take place in Athens World congress organized by Ecumenical Hellenism . June 2, 2006 Category Non governmental organizations Category Greek diaspora Greece stub ... more details
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wiktionary Hellenic Hellenic is a synonym for Greek and may refer to Hellenic languages Hellenic Airlines Hellenic College , a liberal arts college in Brookline, Massachusetts Hellenic College of London Hellenic FC , a football club in South Africa Hellenic studies Hellenic Republic Tampa Bay Hellenic , a women s soccer team in the United States See also Hellene Hellenization Hellenistic civilization Greek disambiguation Hellenism disambiguation disambig pt Hel nica ... more details
Notability date May 2008 Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages Hellenic Cosmos is a museum in Athens , Greece which attempts to unravel the complex issues of Hellenism Disambiguation needed date June 2011 . It is a huge project being constructed in a former industrial zone that only 10 of which has been completed. External links http www.fhw.gr cosmos index.php?&lg en Official site Category Museums in Athens Greece museum stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 The Passing of Peregrinus lang la De Morte Peregrini lang el is a satire by Assyrian people Assyrian Greek writer Lucian , in which the lead character, the Cynic philosopher Peregrinus Proteus , takes advantage of the generosity of Christians. This is one of the earliest surviving pagan perceptions of Christianity. External links http www.tertullian.org rpearse lucian peregrinus.htm English text, translated by A.M Harmon Category Works by Lucian Category Hellenism and Christianity Category Cynicism fi Peregrinoksen polttoitsemurha ... more details
Speros Vryonis Jr. lang el , born 1928 is an United States American historian of Greeks Greek descent and a specialist in Greek and Byzantine Empire Byzantine history. ref http www.greeknewsonline.com modules.php?name News&file article&sid 3264 Speros Vryonis and the Mechanism of Catastrophe ref He is the author of a number of works on Byzantine Greek Turkish relations, including The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century 1971 and The Mechanism of Catastrophe The Turkish Pogrom of September 6 7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul 2005 . Vryonis is professor emeritus of history at UCLA , the former Director of the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism and is currently the AHIF Senior Fellow for Hellenism and for Greek and Turkish Studies. ref name AHI http www.ahiworld.com press releases 071607.html Professor Speros Vryonis, Jr. Appointed AHIF Senior Fellow for Hellenism and for Greek and Turkish Studies . July 16, 2007 No. 46. ref Vryonis received his Bachelor of Arts BA in ancient history and the classics from Southwestern College now Rhodes College , Memphis, Tennessee in 1950. He received his MA from Harvard University two years later and his Ph.D. from the same school in 1956. ref name AHI Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Vryonis, Speros ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1928 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Vryonis, Speros Category American Byzantinists Category American people of Greek descent Category Greek Byzantinists Category Living people Category 1928 births US historian stub ... more details
Demetrios J. Constantelos is a researcher in Byzantology and a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ . He was born in Spilia, Messenia , Greece . He was ordained a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in 1955 and earned a PhD in Byzantine Civilization at Rutgers University in 1965. ref Staff biography page at Richard Stockton College http talon.stockton.edu eyos page.cfm?siteID 69&pageID 12 ref Publications Publications by Demetrios Constantelos include Christian Faith And Cultural Heritage Essays from a Greek Orthodox Perspective Renewing the Church The Significance of the Council in Trullo Paideia Addresses to Young People The Complete Works of His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of North and South America 1959 1996 The Torchbearer Encyclicals Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Subjects, Administration, Education, Culture Understanding the Greek Orthodox Church Its Faith, History and Life Christian Hellenism, Volume Three Essays and Studies in Continuity and Change The Greeks, Their Heritage, and Its Value Today Poverty, Society and Philanthropy in the Late Mediaeval Greek World Byzantine Philanthropy and Social Welfare Religious Philosophical Issues and Interreligious Dialogues in the Orthodox Church Since World War II Orthodox Theology and Diakonia Trends and Prospects Essays in Honor of His Eminence Archbishop Iakovos on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday Christian Hellenism Essays and Studies in Continuity and Change Hellenism Ancient, Mediaeval Modern, 13 by Demetrios J. Constantelos ISBN 0 89241 588 6 References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Constantelos, Demetrios ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Constantelos, Demetrios Category Living people Category People from Messenia Category National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Category American historians Categ ... more details
The Anglo Hellenic League is an organisation supporting and promoting Anglo Greek relations and understanding. It was founded in 1913 in London and it carries out charitable and cultural work. Since 1990 it publishes the biannual Anglo Hellenic Review . It is a member society of the Hellenic Centre, and since the mid 1990s it is housed at the Hellenic Centre http www.helleniccentre.org in London. From 1986, the league awards annually the Runciman Award named in honor of the writer and historian Steven Runciman for books published in English and relating to Greece and Hellenism Academia Hellenism . ref Runciman Award goes to two winners, Kathimerini edition in english , page 6, Life Books section, Thursday, June 7, 2007 http www.ekathimerini.com 4dcgi w articles civ 7370064 07 06 2007 84241 ref References reflist Bibliography http www.aim25.ac.uk cgi bin search2?coll id 797&inst id 6 25, King s College London College Archives http www.princemichael.org.uk charities anglo.html Information about the League from the site of Prince Michael of Kent President and Chief Patron of the League retrieved 10 June 2007 http www.dango.bham.ac.uk record details.asp?recordType ngo&id 574 Database of Archive of Non Governmental Organisations, record for Anglo Hellenic League External links http www.anglohellenicleague.org Anglo Hellenic League Category 1913 establishments in the United Kingdom Category Organisations based in the United Kingdom Category Greek culture Category Greece United Kingdom relations Category Organizations established in 1913 el Anglo Hellenic League ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 Claude Tresmontant 1925 1997 was a French philosopher, Hellenism Academia Hellenist and theologian. Biography Claude Tresmontant taught medieval philosophy and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne . He was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Science. He was given the Maxmilien Kolbe Prize in 1973 and the Grand Prix of the Academy of Moral and Political Science for his complete works in 1987. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tresmontant, Claude ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1927 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1997 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tresmontant, Claude Category French philosophers Category University of Paris faculty Category 1927 births Category 1997 deaths cs Claude Tresmontant es Claude Tresmontant fr Claude Tresmontant it Claude Tresmontant pl Claude Tresmontant sk Claude Tresmontant ... more details
For other persons named Phila, see Phila . Phila lang el a daughter of Seleucus I Nicator and Stratonice of Syria Stratonice . She became the wife of Antigonus II Gonatas and was mother of Demetrius II Aetolicus . References Joann Malelas, p. 198, ed. Bonn Droysen, Hellenism. vol. ii. p. 179 Froelich. Ann. Syr, pp, 21, 22 http www.livius.org phi php phila phila 2.html Livius.org Category 3rd century BC women Category Ancient Macedonian queens consort ca Fila III de Maced nia el fr Phila II pt Fila filha de Seleuco I Nicator zh ... more details
class infobox width 180px File Epirus across Greece Albania4.svg 180px The region of Epirus in the 20th century, divided between Greece and Albania. small Grey approx. extent of Epirus in antiquity Orange Greek Epirus region region of Epirus Green approx. extent of largest concentration of Greeks in Northern Epirus , early 20th cent. ref Following G. Soteriadis An Ethnological Map Illustrating Hellenism In The Balkan Peninsula And Asia Minor London Edward Stanford, 1918. File Hellenism in the Near East 1918.jpg ref Red dotted line territory of autonomous state of Northern Epirus small The name Epirus , from the Greek language Greek meaning continent may refer to Geographical Epirus a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans , straddling modern Greece and Albania Northern Epirus a region in southern Albania, the term is closely connected with the ethnic Greek minority in the country Epirus region one of the thirteen regions administrative divisions of Greece. Historical Epirus ancient state , a Greek state 330 167 BC ruled by Pyrrhus of Epirus ca. 300 272 BC Epirus vetus 146 BC 395 AD and Epirus nova Old and New Epirus , provinces of the Roman Empire Despotate of Epirus 1205 1479 , one of the successor states of the Byzantine Empire The Principality of Epirus , another name for the Ottoman pashalik of Yanina 1430 1868 Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus , a short lived state 1914 proclaimed by the pro Greek party in modern Southern Albania Northern Epirus People Epirus mythology from Greek mythology , daughter of Echion and Agave mythology Agave References reflist disambiguation Category Epirus ar bg ca Epir de Epirus el ko hr Epir it Epiro disambigua ka la Epirus discretiva mk nl Epirus sk Epirus sr sh Epir zh ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced December 2009 orphan March 2009 POV December 2007 Several New Testament passages contain lists that have come to be labeled Catalogues of Vices and Virtues by scholars. The catalogue form was extremely popular with everyone in 1st century Greek Philosophy Schools of thought in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity Hellenism . Citation needed date April 2007 Plato wrote the earliest catalogue. They could easily be adapted for a range of philosophies and ethics . Philo , a hellenized Jew , also wrote several. There is surprisingly little difference between the Christian and non Christian catalogues. The longest list is in the Epistle to the Galatians and every item is common among pagan catalogues except one. Catalogues vary by size, content, and style. There was, apparently, little interest in Christians for creativity, systemization, or completeness. Their primary function, therefore, was to show that Christian morality should approximately conform to the well accepted morality of Hellenism. Therefore, the catalogues should not be considered creedal or specifically Christian. The lists of vices are disordered and chaotic, compared to the organized order of the virtues, reflecting the multiplicity and haphazardness of evil and the unity of the Holy Spirit . Early Christian Catalogues Epistle to the Romans Romans 1 29 31 Epistle to the Romans Romans 13 13 First Epistle to the Corinthians 1 Corinthians 5 10 First Epistle to the Corinthians 1 Corinthians 6 9 Second Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Corinthians 12 20 Epistle to the Galatians Galatians 5 19 23 Epistle to the Ephesians Ephesians 4 31 Epistle to the Colossians Colossians 3 5, 8 First Epistle to Timothy 1 Timothy 1 9 Second Epistle to Timothy 2 Timothy 3 2 5 Epistle to Titus Titus 3 3 First Epistle of Peter 1 Peter 2 1 First Epistle of Peter 1 Peter 4 3 First Epistle of Peter 1 Peter 4 15 Apocalypse of Peter Didache Letter to Barnabas Resources Hans Dieter Betz , Galatians . Phila ... more details
Lee I. Levine is an American born rabbi , archaeologist and historian of classical Judaism . He is a strong believer in the ability of the Jewish people and Judaism to adapt to local settings as a key to survival. He is the author of Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity and The Ancient Synagogue , one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject. Levine is a professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He received degrees at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America JTS , where he was ordained as a Conservative rabbi, and Columbia University . He was a student of Gerson Cohen . In 1961, Levine married Mira Karp, whom he met at Camp Ramah . ref http www.campramah.org marriages marriage stories.html levine karp ref Levine has also taught at Yale University and the Seminary of Judaic Studies in Jerusalem. He has directed several archaeological digs, among them a dig in Caesarea and the excavation of the Hurvat Amudim Synagogue. Published work The Ancient Synagogue The First Thousand Years , Second Edition, Yale University Press, 2005 Jerusalem Portrait of the City in the Second Temple Period 538 B.C.E. 70 C.E. , Jewish Publication Society of America, 2003 Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity Conflict or Confluence? , Hendrickson Publishers, 1999 Rabbinic Class of Roman Palestine in Late Antiquity , Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1990 References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Levine, Lee I. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH United States DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Levine, Lee I. Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category Israeli archaeologists ... more details
Hebraism with Hellenistic civilization Hellenism . ref http www.victorianweb.org authors arnold writings 4.html Arnold, Matthew. Hebraism and Hellenism . From Culture and Anarchy An Essay in Political ... doc 1G1 15524303.html Feldman, Louis H., Hebraism and Hellenism reconsidered, Judaism ... more details
and Covenant in Judaism 2005 and The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism ... 0520212503 Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism , Mohr ... more details
Chrysanthius of Sardis was a Ancient Greece Greek philosopher of the 4th century AD who studied at the school of Iamblichus philosopher Iamblichus . ref http www.123exp biographies.com t 00034112710 123exp biographies.com ref He was one of the favorite pupils of Aedesius , and devoted himself mainly to the mystical side of Neoplatonism . The emperor Julian the Apostate Julian went to him by the advice of Aedesius, and subsequently invited him to come to the court and assist in the projected resuscitation of Hellenic polytheism Hellenism . But Chrysanthius declined, citing the strength of unfavorable omens, though he probably realized the revival was unlikely to bear fruit. For the same reason he abstained from drastic religious reforms in his capacity as high priest of Lydia . As a result of his moderation, he remained high priest until his death, venerated alike by Paganism Pagans and Christianity Christians . His wife Meite, who was associated with him in the priestly office, was a kinswoman of Eunapius the biographer. Eunapius, who was related to Chrysanthius by marriage, tended to him in his old age and was devoted to him until his death. ref http www.tertullian.org fathers eunapius 01 intro.htm Tertullian.org on Eunapius ref References Reflist 1911 Platonists Category 4th century Romans Category 4th century philosophers Category Neoplatonists Category Roman era philosophers de Chrysanthios von Sardes it Crisanzio fi Khrysanthios ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Infobox Former Subdivision native name common name Ayrarat continent Europe region Armenian highland Armenian Highland image map Ayrarat.jpg era Antiquity , Middle Ages subdivision Province nation Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Greater Armenia year start 189 BC year end 650 AD capital Armavir, Armenia Armavir common language Armenian language Armenian religions Hellenism , Christianity from 301 AD event start Artaxias I declaring himself independent event end Arab conquest of Armenia date end 650 AD Ayrarat Lang hy was a province of Kingdom of Armenia antiquity Arsacid Dynasty old Armenia c. 300 &ndash 800 . The main city was Oshakan . It is believed that the name Ayrarat is the Armenian language Armenian equivalent of the toponym Urartu lang hy , Mount Ararat Ararat . ref http www.iranicaonline.org articles ayrarat Encyclop dia Iranica Online ref See also List of regions of old Armenia References reflist Historical regions of Armenia Coord missing Armenia Category Regions of old Armenia Armenia hist stub ca Airarat eo Ajrarato fr Ayrarat hy it Ayrarat ru ... more details
Image John Cocoris.jpg thumb right John Cocoris Image Tarpon Springs Plaque.jpg thumb right Plaque in Tarpon Springs, Florida commemorating Cocoris. John Michael Cocoris September 17, 1877 1944 was a Greek people Greek businessman . Born in Leonidio , he came to New York in 1895 to work in the sea sponge sponge trade. In 1905, he introduced sponge diving to Tarpon Springs, Florida . Cocoris recruited Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese Islands . By the 1930s, the sponge industry of Tarpon Springs was very productive, generating millions of dollars a year. He died in 1944 in Duval County, Florida . See also Greek American References Leo Polopolu. A Brief History of Hellenism in Florida . External links http www.ahepafamily.org d5 Tarpon Springs.html History of the Tarpon Sponge Industry http www.divingheritage.com keywestkern.htm Sponge fishing in Key West and Tarpon Springs Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cocoris, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1877 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1944 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cocoris, John Category 1877 births Category 1944 deaths Category People from Arcadia Category American people of Greek descent Category Greek businesspeople Category Greek emigrants to the United States Greece business bio stub gv John Cocoris ... more details
Plethron is a measurement used in Ancient times, equal to 100 pous Greek feet pous . It was roughly the width of a typical athletic running track, and was used as the standard width and length of a Wrestling square, since wrestling competitions were held on the racing track in early times. A plethron is given as the size of the wrestling area by Libanius in Orationes Chapter 10. Although the standard measure for a plethron may have varied from polis to polis, it normally corresponded to the length of around 30 meters 100 ft . A square plethron is consequently a square of around 30 by 30 meters, i. e. something like 900 square meters. The plethron continued to be used in the Byzantine Empire and was defined as 100 feet or 40 pace unit of length pace s bema one square plethron was a stremma . ref V.L. M nage, Review of Speros Vryonis, Jr. The decline of medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the process of islamization from the eleventh through the fifteenth century , Berkeley, 1971 in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London 36 3 1973 , pp. 659 661. http links.jstor.org sici?sici 0041 977X 281973 2936 3A3 3C659 3ATDOMHI 3E2.0.CO 3B2 K at JSTOR subscription required see also Erich Schilbach, Byzantinische Metrologie referenced but not seen ref References reflist Ancient Greece stub Category Ancient Greek technology Category Byzantine Empire ca Plethron et Pletron el ru uk ... more details
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