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Helen ofTroy , orHelenus , son of KingPriam ofTroy ."Hellen (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἕλλην, "Hel"lèn), Greek
Katharevousa : (Audio-IPA|Ell-Ellin.ogg| ["ellin"] ) was the mythologicalpatriarch of the Hellenes, the son ofDeucalion (or sometimesZeus ) andPyrrha , brother ofAmphictyon and father ofAeolus ,Xuthus , andDorus . The word comes from the prefix έλ- (el- "sun, bright, shiny", (èlios, "sun")) + λάς (las "rock, stone"). Ελλάς: "The land of the sun and the rock". His name is also another name for Greek, meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining toGreek culture , and the source of the adjective "Hellenic". Each of his sons founded a primary tribe of Greece:Aeolus theAeolians ,Dorus theDorians andXuthus theAchaeans (from Xuthus's son Achaeus) and theIonians (from Xuthus's probably illegitimate sonIonas ) together with his sister'sPandora 's andThyia 's sons with Zeus and according toHesiod 's (probably) "Èoiæ" (Greek: Ηοίαι (ancient Greek polytonic|Ἠοῖαι from Ἠ' οἷαι = "or such women as") or "Catalogue of Women " [Hesiod (probably). "Èoiæ" or "Catalogue of Women ", c. 650 BC.] ,Graecus theGraecians ,Makednos the Makedones andMagnes theMagnetes . They conquered the Greek area ofPhthia and subsequently spread their rule to other Greek cities. The people of those areas came to be called Hellenes, after the name of their ancestor.References
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Orseis
*Hellenes
*Greece
*Hellenic civilization
*Mythology
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