Homs-Sana
The Hellenistic period is the outcome of the merger between Greek Hellenism and the Syrian East as a key to Asia, as the Hellenistic period begins with the advent of Alexander the Great to Syria in 333 BC and the entry of the Romans in 64 BC.
In a comparison between the two periods, the researcher and investigator, engineer Nihad Samaan, addressed in his lecture, which was called for by the Al-Adiyat Association in Homs, the Syrian civilization in the Hellenistic period, when it was at its most splendid due to the availability of references and languages, and the survival of a large part of the monuments of the civilizations of that period, despite the distortion of some of them.
Samaan reviewed the history of Syria before Alexander as the gate of Asia to the East. Sumer formed the beginning of the Syrian civilization with writing, so that Syria Aramaic-Canaanite became the political and commercial language in the world, in addition to the civilization of Mari 2900 BC and its rich cultural vocabulary, and the civilization of Ebla, twin of Mari, and among the civilizations of the West, the city of Carthage and Tyre. And Sidon, and in the middle 1500 BC. Damascus appeared, and in the east Hammurabi, Babylon and others, whose cultural monuments are still a true witness to their greatness, including a royal inscription recorded with information about the greatest party in history.
Semaan added: “As a result of the Syrian wars with the Romans, the identity of the Syrian sea changed, becoming a sea for the Romans in 109 BC. The Treaty of Apamea during the time of Antiochus III the Great with the Romans made Syria lose its emirates in the east, and the treaty was unfair to the Syrian people, as it exhausted all Syrian forces and replaced relations Social, which was based on the basis of allied cities, and the rule became central to a king who was essentially not from its population fabric and was ignorant of the Syrian gem in order to be able to advance civilization in it, and the central Seleucid authority began to decline with the progress of the Romans in the world.
Semaan asked why Syria was the cradle of civilizations and the home of wealth, beauty and creative thought, so that the answer would be...because it is the country of the sun, rain, fertile soil, the four seasons and the home of olives, wheat, vines and honey, pointing out that the Syrian man belonged to his city and society and not to beliefs or clans, as he created gods that suit him and the nature of his land. Such as Baal, Ishtar, Bakhs, Hadad, and other deities that establish him in his land, and he excelled in investing the blessings of the earth and making its production and exporting it to the world, and he legislated and enacted laws that guarantee the interest of the community and ensure its continuity and immortality.
It is noteworthy that the lecture came, according to Dr. Nazih, as head of the Al-Adiyat Association branch in Homs, as part of the opening of the first activities of the cultural season of the association this year in Homs.
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