Why Did the Ancient Greeks Call Themselves ‘Hellenes’?
They sure didn’t call themselves Greeks.
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3 min readFeb 13, 2022
The native name for Greece is ‘Hellas,’ and its official name is ‘Helliniki Dimokartia’ (Hellenic Republic, in English. The word ‘Greece’ was adopted by the Romans and eventually became a part of English as well. ‘Greece’ came from the word ‘Graeci,’ which was first used by Aristotle while he was writing…
