Why Greeks aren’t called “Greeks“ in Greek 🇬🇷

The Greek word for “Greek“ isn’t related to the term used in various Western European languages: greco, griego, grec — why are these so different from the Greek word for “Greeks“: Hellenes. Do any other languages use the “Hellenic“ root? What languages use neither? And why is it we don’t use the “Hellenic“ term in these languages? Is it a vast conspiracy against the Greeks? Many thanks to my sponsor Ancient Language Institute. To learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, or Old English with some of the best instructors and pedagogy out there, sign up for online lessons at . ⬅️ Sources: see below. 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella “Vir Petasātus“ 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 🏺 Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: 📄 Ancient Greek Pronunciation Guide: ▶️ Ancient Greek Pronunciation playlist: 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: And if you like, do consider joining this channel: 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: 👨‍🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons: 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian) 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: 🌍 polýMATHY website: 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: 👕 Merch: 🦂 🦅 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart SOURCES Greek: A History of the Language and its People, by Geoffrey Horrocks Parian Marble: Robert S. P. Beekes (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek Aristotle, Meteorologica, I, 352b. Homer. Iliad, –685 Pausanias, Periegesis, book 5, p. 136. #greek #greece #ancientgreece 00:00 Intro 00:23 Ἕλληνες & Ἀχαιοί (Héllēnes & Achaîoi) 01:20 The Iliad’s “Hellas“ 02:05 Hellen and the Amphictyonic League 03:58 Why they’re “Greeks“ in English and other languages 06:05 Graikoí from Graea 07:00 But where is Graea??? 07:31 Graea = Tanagra 09:06 Etymology of Graea 09:51 Graikoí as the pre-Classical term for “Greeks“ 12:10 The Parian Marble 12:54 Shaka when the walls fell 15:10 Coptic for “Greek“ 16:27 Greek Paranoia 16:38 Analogy with “German“ 17:40 Greeks do this too 18:31 !....? 19:07 Outtakes