The Hellenistic period spans the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.

When did Hellenism stop?

The End of the Hellenistic Age

The Hellenistic world fell to the Romans in stages, but the era ended for good in 31 B.C. That year, in the Battle at Actium, the Roman Octavian defeated Mark Antony's Ptolemaic fleet.

How did Hellenism end?

The Hellenistic period may be seen to end either with the final conquest of the Greek heartlands by Rome in 146 BC following the Achaean War, with the final defeat of the Ptolemaic Kingdom at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, or even the move by Roman emperor Constantine the Great of the capital of the Roman Empire to ...