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  • The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.

    George Sarton (1959). “A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C”