Still reeling from the horrors of violent fascism and extreme nationalism, humanity has grown enamored of a universal self-conception that denies meaningful differences of race, religion, or culture.

Hanukkah focusses on the Maccabean struggle for freedom of religion in the second century BCE against the idolatry of the Syrian Greeks, ruled by Antiochus Epiphanes. (Natalia Ganelin / Getty Images) ...

This is Hanukkah season. In Hebrew schools across the country the Hanukkah story will be told, and the story usually goes like this: The wicked king Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked the innocent and ...

The beginning of the armed Eoka struggle in 1955 was a “new era for Cypriot Hellenism,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday inaugurating the 70 Years of Eoka 1955-1959 exhibition in ...

Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

Tune in as Judy Simon retells the story of Hanukkah and the Hellenism of the Jews of those days, juxtaposed with Hellenism of today. It's a story of politics and religion, and where some Jews went ...

In 1997, Artemis Leontis proclaimed that “Romantic Hellenism has lost its charm.” But if scholars of Modern Greek Studies had been wondering what might lie “beyond Hellenicity,” in the last decade ...