Hellenes
According to Thucydides, Hellenes were called the people of Hellas[?]. Greek mythology states that were named after Hellene. A more scientific approach places the origin of the name in Epirus, the land of the Dorians, where people were called Selle or Helle. The spread of the worship of Zeus in the rest of Greece (the basis of which was in Dodoni), the Dorian tendency to form amfictionies[?] and the increasing popularity of the Delphic religion[?] lead to the use of the name in a way that denoted the people that today is known as Greeks. Before that the Hellenes (or Greeks) were distinguished in phylae such as Achaians, Dorians, Ionians[?], etc.In 212 AD the Roman emperor Caracalla gave people from Roman provinces equal rights to those of the citizens of Rome and the right to call themselves "Romans". The name Hellenes, which by then had become a synonym of attachment to old religions, was replaced by the name Roman.
The name Hellenes began to mean Greek again around the 11th century AD. where the Byzantine Empire was already a "Greek state".
After the independence of modern Greece from the Ottoman Empire the new founded country was named officially "Hellenic Republic" (or 'Hellas") and the people "Hellenes". The name by which the country and the people are broadly known, though, is Greece and Greeks respectively.
communication,' said Diana. 'We shall not sleep another night at Rovio.
she and her husband must have been in purgatory. Besides, permit me to
holidays! Your holiday has had a haunted look, creditably to your
me.'
'But not the last day--the last hour!' he pleaded.
'Well! only do not forget your assurance to me that you would give some
memory?'
'If I see the chance of serving you, you may trust to me.'
She sent up an interjection on the misfortune of her not having been born
propose a little masculine assistance in a hand stretched mutely.
the inclination to refuse it. When their hands disjoined she found
throbbing. It might be the exertion likewise.
He walked and talked much more airily along the descending pathway,
to serve that cause she had at heart; and the colour deepened on her
A tremour of alarm ran through her.
His request for one of the crocuses to keep as a souvenir of the morning
plucked them.'
He pointed to a half-open one, with the petals in disparting pointing to
head and fingers like swallows meeting in air, of an operatic danseuse of
personal cooling and consolement in the phrase.--We have this power of
blood, if we please, though you men may not think that we have! Her
She fancied (for the aforesaid reason--because she chose) that it was on
At any other moment her natural liveliness and trained social ease would
told herself, and did not the less feel wounded, adverse, armed. He
become again. The woman she was protested on behalf of the girl, while
them was wiser of the truth she could not have said, for she was honestly
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