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Hellenic

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Hel·len·ic  (h-lnk)
adj.
Of or relating to the ancient Hellenes, their language, or their history; Greek.
n.
The branch of the Indo-European language family that consists only of Greek.
Hellenic
Adjective
1. of the Greeks or their language
2. of or relating to ancient Greece during the classical period (776–323 bc)
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Noun1.HellenicHellenic - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
Greek, Hellenic language
Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European - the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Modern Greek, New Greek - the Greek language as spoken and written today
Late Greek - the Greek language in the 3rd to 8th centuries
Byzantine Greek, Medieval Greek, Middle Greek - the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD
Koine - a Greek dialect that flourished under the Roman Empire
Ancient Greek - the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire
Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
Adj.1.Hellenic - of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical
Graeco-Roman, Greco-Roman, classic, classical
classical, classic - of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery"
2.Hellenic - relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
Hellenistic, Hellenistical
3.Hellenic - of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language; "Greek mythology"; "a Grecian robe"
Grecian, Greek


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The "Catalogues" proper were a series of genealogies which traced the Hellenic race (or its more important peoples and families) from a common ancestor.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
He had persistently elevated Hellenic Paganism at the expense of Christianity; yet in that civilization an illegal surrender was not certain disesteem.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
You had your choice, and might have gone either to Lacedaemon or Crete, both which states are often praised by you for their good government, or to some other Hellenic or foreign state.
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