Hellenic
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great.
Hellenically
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a word derived from
Hellenic.
Example Sentences
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The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
No living spirit has been breathed into these nostrils; the staring eyes gaze upon me without life and animation; no heart beats under the Hellenically rounded marble bosom.
From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
