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:''Note: Hellen was not the same person as [[Helen]] of [[Troy]], or [[Helenus]], son of King [[Priam]] of [[Troy]].''
'''Hellen''' ([[Ancient Greek language|Ancient Greek]]: {{polytonic|Ἕλλην}}, ''Hel''lèn), Greek [[Katharevousa]]: ({{Audio-IPA|Ell-Ellin.ogg|[''ellin'']}}) was the mythological [[patriarch]] of the [[Greeks|Hellenes]], the son of [[Deucalion]] (or sometimes [[Zeus]]) and [[Pyrrha]], brother of [[Amphictyon]] and father of [[Aeolus]], [[Xuthus]], and [[Dorus]]. 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 [[Greece|Greek]], meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining to [[Greek culture]], and the source of the adjective "Hellenic". Each of his sons founded a primary tribe of Greece: [[Aeolus]] the [[Aeolians]], [[Dorus]] the [[Dorians]] and [[Xuthus]] the [[Achaeans]] (from Xuthus's son [[Achaeus, son of Xuthus|Achaeus]]) and the [[Ionians]] (from Xuthus's probably illegitimate son [[Ionas]]) together with his sister's [[Pandora]]'s and [[Thyia]]'s sons with Zeus and according to [[Hesiod]]'s (probably) "Èoiæ" ([[Greek Language|Greek]]: Ηοίαι (ancient Greek {{polytonic|Ἠοῖαι from Ἠ' οἷαι}} = "or such women as") or "[[Catalogue of Women]]"<ref>Hesiod (probably). "Èoiæ" or "[[Catalogue of Women]]", c. 650 BC.</ref>, [[Graecus]] the [[Graecians]], [[Makednos]] the [[Ancient Macedonians|Makedones]] and [[Magnes]] the [[Magnetes]]. They conquered the Greek area of [[Phthia]] 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.
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==See also==
*[[Orseis]]
*[[Greeks|Hellenes]]
*[[Greece]]
*[[Hellenic civilization]]
*[[Mythology]]
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