Hellenistic

[Baker, John]

        In a review of The Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green, in The Wall
Street Journal today, Peter Stothard asserts that the word Hellenistic
itself came from the French name for the Septuagint.  I was a bit
surprised by this, having always supposed that the word had something to
do with the Hellenes (from Hellen, the mythical ancestor of the Greeks).
Is there any basis at all for Stothard's assertion, or is it just
another Wall Street Journalism?


John Baker

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