neohellenismn.
/ˌniːəʊˈhɛlᵻnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈhɛləˌnɪz(ə)m/ The adoption or revival of, or enthusiasm for, ancient Greek artistic models and ideals.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > quality or character of
Graecism1609
Hellenism1728
Greeknessa1861
neohellenism1879
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > conformity to ideas of
Hellenism1614
neohellenism1879
1879 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (ed. 2) 79 A genuine instance of what we may call the Neohellenism of the Renaissance.
1939 Speculum 14 153 Buchtal admits that the full-page miniature was a familiar phenomenon in late antiquity,..but maintains that in the case of the Psalter it must be due to the neo-Hellenism of the ‘renaissance’.
1967 Yale French Stud. No. 38. 184 Bloch's display of a neo-hellenism borrowed wholesale from Leconte de Lisle.
1989 Amer. Hist. Rev. 94 414 The fascination of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with Hellenism, especially German Neohellenism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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