The Religion of Hellenistic Greece

Greek religion in Greece Early Greek religion was polytheistic. Religion is integrated into every aspect of culture, including art and literature. This is a religion that was practiced in Greek "Golden Age". Hellen 's Greek god exists in various forms and ways. Everything in life has a god such as government, gender, date of birth, deal, human characteristics (wisdom, love, war, birth, rain etc). The only answer the Greeks thought was death was to remember wonderful stories and heroic acts.

Greek philosophy prospered in every aspect of Hellenistic world, but Greek ancient religion was not. It is more difficult to turn foreigners into Greek religion, focusing on rituals and rituals than a series of beliefs that leads life. As a result, religion of indigenous people such as Judaism and Mithraism prospered. Since 200 BC, the emergence of a new administration in the western part of the Roman Republic symbolized the decline of the Hellenistic kingdom. In the second Punic war, King Antigone unjustly supported Carthagin against Rome. Then Rome and Macedonia fought to make it the state of Rome in 148 BC. Greek city state no longer dominated by Macedonia was absorbed in the state of Rome

Greek Greece and Macedonia fell into the Roman Empire in 146 BC. Jews living in Rome and Greece have different experiences from the Jews in the Jewish area. The New Testament describes Greek Jews as an independent community of Jewish Jews, Greek Jews did not participate after the first Jewish - Roman war. The Thessaloniki Jews spoke Greek dialects, living Hellenistic and joining the new Jewish colony in the 1st century CE. The Thessaloniki Jews enjoyed "broad autonomy" in Roman times.

In the Greek-speaking world, the importance of "Greek aborigines" (ie Greek territories) in the Greek-speaking world suddenly declined. The Greek culture center is the capital of Alexandria and Antioquia, Ptolemy Egypt, Seychelles. After hearing that Alexander died, Athens and its allies fought with Macedonia, but they were defeated within one year of the ramen war. At the same time, a power struggle between general Alexander occurred, the collapse of his empire and the establishment of a new kingdom (see Diyudoki war). Ptolemy stayed in Egypt, Seymour, Levant on Mesopotamia, pointing to the eastern part. Regarding the control of Greece, Thrace, Anatolia, it was questioned, but by 298 BC the rebellious dynasty superseded the opposition.