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Welcome to the Hellenismos Portal
 Hellenismos (Hellenism, but religious in this case) is the Greek culture and ethnic philosophy/religion from ancient to modern times. 'Hellenismos' was first used in the fourth century by Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate to mean Greek religion, and today it is used to mean its continuation and, in Greece, Greek culture. Hellenismos includes philosophies such as the religion of the Greek gods, such as Dodecatheism, the Eleusinian mysteries, the Delphic mysteries, Hermetism, the Dionysian mysteries, and other Greek, but not all theistic, philosophies such as Orphism and Pythagoreanism, the Milesian school, the Eleatic school, other pre-Socratic philosophy, Platonism and the Peripatetic school, neo-Platonism and Skepticism and Stoicism and other Hellenistic philosophy to the present day. Important ancient/Classical Hellenismos teachers/writers/prophets include Hermes Trismegistus, the Pythia and Sibyl, Hesiod, Apollodorus, Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Creophylus of Samos, Orpheus, Thales, Anaximander, Pherecydes of Syros, Xenophanes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the seven sages of Greece, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Antisthenes, Aristippus, Euclid of Megara, Pyrrho, Zeno of Citium, Epicurus, Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Hypatia of Alexandria, etc. Selected article ]]Many philosophers today maintain that Greek philosophy has influenced much of Western thought since its inception. Alfred Whitehead once noted: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."[1] Clear, unbroken lines of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers, to medieval Islamic philosophers, to the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Some claim that Greek philosophy, in turn, was influenced by the older wisdom literature and mythological cosmogonies of the ancient Near East. Martin Litchfield West gives qualified assent to this view, stating, "contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to liberate the early Greek philosophers' imagination; it certainly gave them many suggestive ideas. But they taught themselves to reason. Philosophy as we understand it is a Greek creation."[2] Subsequent philosophic tradition was so influenced by Socrates as presented by Plato that it is conventional to refer to ancient Greek philosophy prior to Socrates as pre-Socratic philosophy. The period following this until the wars of Alexander the Great is referred to as classical Greek philosophy, followed by Hellenistic philosophy. Selected biographyApollonius Rhodius, also known as Apollonius of Rhodes (Latin; Greek Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios), early 3rd century BCE – after 246 BCE, was a poet, and a librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He is best known for his epic poem the Argonautica, which told the mythological story of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and which is one of the chief works in the history of epic poetry. He did not come from Rhodes, but was a Hellenistic Egyptian. He lived in Rhodes for part of his life and while living there adopted "Rhodian" as a surname. In the newsHellenismos' main news source from Greece: YSEE (translated to English) Selected picture
Did you know?Pythagoras studied in the East, including at Mt. Carmel. He and the community (near) there had similar rare practices of ethics (and dress,) and later Socrates described some as virtuous and philosophical. Likewise, a similar community South of Mt. Carmel later kept a text of Plato's Republic, a dialogue in which Socrates spoke. This interaction has influenced various spirituality near the Eastern Mediterranean to the present day. CategoriesAncient Greek culture • arts in Greek mythology & paintings depicting Greek myths • Ancient Greek philosophers • Hermetism & history of science • Ancient Greek literature & poems • Homer & Iliad & Odyssey • mythology & mythographers & religion & Greek deities • Olympus • Classical oracles • Presocratic & Classical Greek philosophy • Pythagorean philosophy • Socratic dialogues & agnosticism • Platonism & gnosticism • Hellenistic philosophy and religion • Greek mythology understanding and criticism 
TopicsBasic: Greece • Greek culture • Greek language & alphabet Ancient thought/literature: Theogony • Works And Days • Titans • Titanomachy • The Library • Mount Olympus • Olympians • Hermetism • Argonautica • Orphic & Homeric Hymns • Epic cycle Ancient religious traditions: amphidromia • iatromantis • libations • orthopraxy • votive offerings Ancient places, events: Athens & Agora & Parthenon & Democracy & Battle of Salamis • Sparta & Timocracy & Battle of Thermopylae • Delphi & Pythia & Sibyl • Thebes • Greek temples • ancient persecution of Hellenismos • Greek War of Independence Ancient thinkers & ideas: Hermes Trismegistus • Thales • Pythagoras • Euclid • Archimedes • Socrates & Plato & Aristotle • Ammonius Saccas • Plotinus • Hypatia • philosophy • science • logic • mathematics • liberal arts • drama • politics • Republic Great ancient leaders: Pericles • Leonidas • Themistocles • Alexander The Great Great ancient playwrights: Sophocles Great ancient sculptors: Polykleitos • Lysippos • Scopas • Phidias Related portalsWikiProjectsWikiprojects related to the Greece project Classical Greece And Rome • Philosophy • Science • Spirituality • Mythology • Egyptian religion (Hermes-Thoth) • Neopaganism (for those who mythology and hymns are new to) Things to doMake a wikiproject Hellenismos and a Hermetism portal. Make a wiki page explaining how to do 'selected articles/biographies, pictures.' Add more info on texts, sects, calendar, rituals, prayers, relevant persons, culture including all the arts. Wikimedia
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