In Greek mythology, Hellen (/ ˈ h ɛ l ɪ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην, romanized: Hellēn) is the eponymous progenitor of the Hellenes. He is the son of Deucalion (or Zeus ) and Pyrrha , and the father of three sons, Dorus , Xuthus , and Aeolus , by …

2019年1月31日 · The name comes from Hellen who was not the woman famed from the Trojan War (Helen of Troy), but the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. According to Ovid's Metamorphoses , Deucalion and Pyrrha were the only survivors of a flood similar to …

Hellen, in Greek mythology, king of Phthia (at the northern end of the Gulf of Euboea), son of Deucalion (the Greek Noah) and Pyrrha and grandson of the Titan Prometheus; he was the eponymous ancestor of all true Greeks, called Hellenes in his honour.

Hellen, in Greek mythology, was the person from which all Hellenes (Greeks) were descended. He was the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and his brother was Amphictyon.

2018年6月8日 · Hellen (hĕl´ən, –ēn), in Greek mythology [1], ancestor of the Hellenes, or Greeks; son of Deucalion [2] and Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the …

Hellen is the mythical ancestor of all the Hellenes or Greeks, in contradistinction from the more ancient Pelasgians. The name of Hellenes was at first confined to a tribe inhabiting a part of Thessaly, but subsequently it was extended to the whole Greek nation.

2023年10月21日 · In Greek mythology, Hellen was the mythical ancestor of all ‘Hellenes’, the true Greeks who were named after him in his honor. He was the King of Phthia and the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. However, in newer renditions of the story, he’s said to be the son of Zeus.

In Greek mythology, Hellen was the man who gave his name to the Hellenic people, a name now synonymous with the Greek people. Hellen is most commonly named as the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha; Deucalion being the son of Prometheus who survived the Deluge, and Pyrrha being the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora.