Hellenophile


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Hellenophile

Someone who admires Greece, its culture, or its people.
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The depth of the Hellenophile Emperors attraction to a boy who lived on after his death as the focus of a cult that rivalled early Christianity struck him as "a story that had to be told."
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It clung to its intellectual prestige for much longer, with sporadic revivals under Hellenophile emperors of Rome.
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