HELLADIC (3000 – 1200 BCE):
A term describing Bronze Age people, events, and artifacts occurring in mainland Greece.
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HELLENISTIC (323 – 30 BCE):
A term describing Greek civilization’s history between the death of Alexander the Great and the battle of Actium when the last Hellenistic kingdom of Egypt fell to the Romans.
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HELLENIC:
A general term describing everything “Greek” in all eras. It derives from Ελλάς, the Greek name for “Greece”, which is usually transliterated in English as “Hellas”. “Ελληνικό” then becomes “Hellenic”.