Hellenization

This article is about the spread of Greek culture. For the renaming of places in Greece, see Hellenization of place names.

One of the mosaics of Delos, Greece with the symbol of the Punic-Phoenician goddess Tanit

Hellenization[a] is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous peoples; in the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.

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