Was Greece once called Hellas?

Answer 1

Ancient greeks did call themselves Hellenes and Greece was called Hellas,
The city (Athens) became, in Pericles's words, "the school of Hellas".

Answer 2

Yes. Greece is also known as Hellas. From Hellas is Hellenistic. The term used to describe Greek Civilisation at the time when it was partly influenced by Middle Eastern cultures. This influence was a result of the conquests of Alexander The Great, who brought Egypt and large parts of Asia under the control of Greece. The Hellenistic period lasted from the 3rd to about the 1st century B.C.

Answer 3

Greece is STILL called Hellas. That is how Greek people refer to their country in their own language. Here's some more info:

The Hellines were first called "Γραικοί" ("Graeki" with the letter "G" pronounced "Y" as in "Yard") by the Illirians (present day Italians), when the former arrived in Italy from ancient Dodoni (city in Epirus, Greece) as colonists. According to another source, these colonists named Γραίοι or Γραίκοι ("Graii" or "Graeci"), came to Italy from Γραία ("Graia"), an ancient town in Viotia, Greece (maybe contemporary Tanagra) and founded a new Hellenic Colony there with the name Nea Polis (which means New City, later to become known as Napoli, or Naples in English). This was the very first time that the Latins came close to the Hellines (Greeks) and thus named them all "Graeci" after the citizens of Graia; and given that most modern European languages originate from Latin, the word "Graecus" became the root for all other respective names for Έλληνας and Ελλάς (Ελλάδα) ("Hellin" and "Hellas" or "Hellada"), e.g. Greek-Greece, Grec-Grèce, Grieche-Griechenland.

Later on, during the first Christian centuries, the word " Έλληνες" (Hellines) became a synonym to "heathen", in order to distinguish the followers of old faith from those of the new -official- religion, and along with Ρωμιοί ("Romii", originating from "Romans") and Ελλαδικοί (=of Greece), the name Γραικοί (Graeki) stayed in use until the foundation of the new Hellenic state in 1832AC. From that time on, the ancient terms Hellas and Hellines are used primarily in the interior of this small peninsula in South-East Europe to identify the country and its inhabitants, while the ones originating from Graeci remain in the vocabularies of the European languages.

http://www.dolphin-hellas.gr/Greece_Hellas.htm

Answer 4

Hi in answer to your Question, Greece Officially Known as The Hellenic Republic, and if you type in www.ancientworlds.net/aw/city/16 you will go right to the hellas home page, full of interesting information.

Answer 5

Everyone is Right O so far - - - - HELLAS was a H E L L of a place - - - The Hellenics sounds odd to an English Ear - - - Greek has such a sharper harsher sound - - - still you could start anoying people by saying, "IT is all Helenic to me," "Beware of Hellenics bearing Gifts" and my Favorite "Anyone wanna Hellenic my a s s ?" Peace.

Answer 6

Greece is the international name for the country which is widely recognised.
Hellas is how the Greeks named their country and it still is being called that way.

Answer 7

Ελληνική Δημοκρατία
Ellinikí Dhimokratía-Hellenic Republic.

Ellada (Ελλάδα) or Hellas (Ελλάς). It is still named like that.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yes. The golden age of the Greeks was also called the "Hellanistic Age."

Answer 10

Yes and Ithaca and several other names such as Sparta. Learn some History and Geography and stop asking stupid questions!