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In Greek mythology, Hellen is the eponymous progenitor of the Hellenes. He is the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the father of three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus. He is considered to be the ances
Hellen (to the right), being presented with the twins Aeolus and Boeotus by a shepherd, in a depiction of the story of Melanippe from Euripides' lost play Melanippe Wise, on an Apulian volute krater, dating from the late fourth century BC.
Names of the Greeks
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The Greeks have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is Hellene, pl. Hellenes; the name Greeks was used by the ancient Romans and gradually entered the European languages
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…krater dating to the late 4th century BC, in which a shepherd shows the twins to Hellen, in the presence of Melanippe, Aeolus, and Aeolus' son Cretheus. Names of the Greeks…
Soleto is one of the nine Greek-speaking towns in the province of Apulia, Italy. Their inhabitants are descendants of the first wave of Greek settlers in Italy and Sicily in the 8th century BC. The dialect they speak evolved separately from Hellenistic Greek. The people of these towns call themselves Griki, from the Latin Graecus.
Hieronymus Wolf was a 16th-century German historian. After coming into contact with the works of Laonicus Chalcondyles, he also went ahead with identifying Byzantine historiography for the purpose of distinguishing medieval Greek from ancient Roman history.
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople, by Eugène Delacroix, 1840. The sack of Constantinople in 1204 by the Crusaders acerbated Greek nationalism and created disdain for the Latins which is well illustrated in the documents of the era. Niketas Choniates portrays an especially lively account of the sack and its aftermath.
The first printed Charter of the Greek Community of Trieste, Italy 1787 – Archives of the Community of Trieste.