Definitions
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- noun Someone who has a
love ofGreece and/orGreek culture, either Ancient or Modern. - adjective Loving Greece and/or Greek culture.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Edit: Ok, Jeopardy just had a category on "Greek Gods and Goddesses" and while I'm normally a Hellenophile, I kept thinking of Roman names for some reason.
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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Edit: Ok, Jeopardy just had a category on "Greek Gods and Goddesses" and while I'm normally a Hellenophile, I kept thinking of Roman names for some reason.
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I'm Falco and you are Philomela, the Hellenophile nightingale. '
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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Perseus (www. perseus.tufts.edu) should be the first stop for any cyber Hellenophile.
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The Greeks have some - how created the impression on romantics of all ages — perhaps beginning in antiquity with early Hellenophile
SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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Gouguenheim makes clear the conscious and deliberate indebtedness of the Carolingian Renaissance to these sustained currents from the East; he emphasizes the importance of the Carolingian Hellenophile project to the preservation and recirculation of Neo-Platonic and Aristotelian thought before the school of Aquinas.
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