[Footnote 58: The gymnasiarch was an essentially Greek official, but might be found outside of Hellas in such cities as had come under Greek influence.

Then have we done with Ilion, and may part In joy to Hellas from this evil land.

ELIS, a district of Greece, on the W. coast of the Peloponnesus, sacred to all Hellas as the seat of the greatest of the Greek festivals in connection with the Olympian Games, a circumstance which imparted a prestige to the inhabitants.

Greece Free After Macedonia had thus been reduced to complete political nullity and was left in possession of only as much power as was needful to guard the frontier of Hellas against the barbarians, steps were taken to dispose of the possessions ceded by the king.

When Xerxes himself entered Europe, and was apparently about to convert Hellas into a satrapy, it was a storm, or a brace of storms, that saved that country from so sad a fate, and preserved it for the welfare of all after generations of men.

The ideas of the modern Hellas on the point of slavery are illustrated by the passage in Euripides (Ion, 854; comp.

Not a single new and genuine work of art issued from its workshop, but it extended the intellectual horizon of Hellas over Italy.