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/həˈɫɛnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
a Grecian robe
Greek mythology - relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization
NOUN
- the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
How To Use Hellenic In A Sentence
- Following these initial contacts, tales of the holy men of India, known to the Greeks as ‘gymnosophists’, began to circulate in the Hellenic world.
- Shortly after the Greek warrior had arrived in Taxila in northern India, he sent a messenger, Onesikritos, a disciple of the Hellenic school of Diogenes, to fetch an Indian teacher, Dandamis, a great sannyasi of Taxila. Autobiography of a Yogi
- Dec. 3, (16, New Style,) 1914, expressing the views of the Hellenic The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
- And, first, we will ask you to consider with us, how and in what respect the kings of Argos and Messene violated these our maxims, and ruined themselves and the great and famous Hellenic power of the olden time. Laws
- Maybe I should add for completeness, that if Grassman's Law surfaced already during this hypothetical common "phonation shift" between Proto-Hellenic and Proto-Indo-Iranian, then forms like Greek títhēmi would have to be explained as resulting from analogical pressures that forced *d to devoice along with *dʰ in the underlying post-Grassman's-Law form, *dídʰehmi. Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2
- Isocrates, on the other hand, appropriates the language of praise as a goading device to strengthen the commitment of his polis to a pan-Hellenic ideal.
- Those evils of Athens then, which were found in very deed somewhat later to be the infirmity of Greece as a whole, when, though its versatile gifts of intellect might constitute it the teacher of its eventual masters, it was found too incoherent politically to hold its own against Rome: -- those evils of Athens, of Greece, came from an exaggerated assertion of the fluxional, flamboyant, centrifugal Ionian element in the Hellenic character. Plato and Platonism
- the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook
- Polykrates became "the first of all cities, Hellenic or barbaric," a center of Ionian manners, luxury, art, science and culture, the seat of the first great thalassocracy or sea-power after that of Cretan Minos, a distributing point for commerce and colonies. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
- Hellenic era, the term belonged to a group of terms and locutions that designated harmony, rhythm, bal - ance, equipoise, stability, good proportions, and even - ness of structure. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY