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philhellene::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | graecophile, philhellenist |
| Type of | admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
| Derivation | philhellenic |
philhellene::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | graecophile, graecophilic, philhellenic |
Examples of philhellene
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In AD 67, the philhellene Roman emperor Nero ordered 6,000 slaves to dig a canal with spades.
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In addition to being emperor, Hadrian was a humanist and was philhellene in all his tastes.
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Byron, the most celebrated philhellene of all, lent his name, prestige and wealth to the cause.
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His humane survey of Greece as early as 1798 is the 19th century's earliest manifestation of the philhellene movement.
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Additionally, there is a memorial to the philhellene Santarosa, who was killed in an earlier battle, on the rocky shore of Sphacteria.
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Keaveney thinks this unlikely and merely demonstrates how Lucullus, a philhellene, had no empathy towards the sensibilities of non-Greeks.
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During the Greek War of Independence, Prometheus became a figure of hope and inspiration for Greek revolutionaries and their philhellene supporters.
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The Scottish historian and philhellene Thomas Gordon took part in the revolutionary struggle and later wrote the first histories of the Greek revolution in English.
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- An admirer of Greece and everything Greek
- Philhellenic: characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things; "the Philhellenic Society"
- Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") was an intellectual fashion prominent at the turn of the 19th century, that led Europeans like Lord Byron or Charles Nicolas Fabvier to advocate for Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire. ...
- A lover of Greek culture and Greece; a supporter of the cause of Greek independence, especially during the Greek war of indepence in 1821-29 (see Philhellenism)
