Hellas

the original home of the Hellenes, according to the received opinion, was first a town, and afterward under the name of Phthiotis, a well-known district of The aly. The ancients, also, sometimes applied this name to the whole of The aly. With ™ the spread of the Hellenic people S., the term embraced a gradually increasing img a9 till it came to denote the whole of Middle Greece, or Greece Proper (modern Livadia). At a still later period, the Peloponnesus itself was included under the rig ae | ind, finally, Hellas came to be used, in the broadest sense, as a ng the whole of Greece, with its isands and colonies. The Hellenes, or Greeks, as distinguished from the more ncient Pelasgians. received this name ‘rom a certain mythical Hellen.. Hellbender.