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{{Short description|Mythological progenitor of the Greek people}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Helen of Troy]] or [[Helenus]]. For other similar terms, see [[Helen (disambiguation)]]}}
[[File:Apulian Volute-Krater Depicting Story of Melanippe, 330-320 BC (10451459663).jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Hellen (bottom, centre-right), being presented with the twins [[Aeolus (son of Poseidon)|Aeolus]] and [[Boeotus (son of Poseidon)|Boeotus]] by a shepherd, in a depiction of the story of [[Melanippe (daughter of Aeolus)|Melanippe]] from [[Euripides]]' lost play ''Melanippe Wise'', on an [[Apulia]]n [[volute krater]], dating from the late fourth century BC.<ref>''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73a4c5f9243d7-1 64 Hellen (S) 1]; [[Michael C. Carlos Museum]] [https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/14741 1994.001].</ref>]]

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Hellen''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɛ|l|ɪ|n|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Hellen.wav}}; {{langx|grc|Ἕλλην|Héllēn}}) is the eponymous progenitor of the [[Greeks|Hellenes]]. He is the son of [[Deucalion]] (or [[Zeus]]) and [[Pyrrha]], and the father of three sons, [[Dorus]], [[Xuthus]], and [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]], by whom he is the ancestor of the Greek peoples.

== Family ==

The ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' (sixth century BC?)<ref>According to West 1985, p. 136, "the composition of the ''Catalogue'' ... may be assigned to sometime between 580 and 520", and "the range may perhaps be narrowed to c. 540&ndash;520", while West 1999, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/639863?seq=17 p. 380], says it was "certainly in the sixth century, and perhaps between 540 and 520". Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=1 p. 1 n. 4] dates it to "about 580", while Hirschberger, p. 49 gives the period of 630 to 590. Janko, p. 200, figure 4, in contrast, places it roughly around 675 and 690.</ref> is a fragmentary poem attributed to [[Hesiod]];<ref>For an extensive discussion of the ''Catalogue'', see West 1985.</ref> the work is structured around a large genealogy of mortals, Hellen's family being described in Book 1 of the poem. According to a [[scholia|scholion]] on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]' ''[[Argonautica]]'', Hellen, in the poem, is called the son of Pyrrha, by either Deucalion, or alternatively, by [[Prometheus]] (who is called the father of Deucalion in the same passage).<ref>Gantz, p. 164; West 1985, p. 51; Yasumura, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mVoDAAAAQBAJ&pg=111 p. 111]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.45.xml fr. 3 Most, pp. 44, 45] [= fr. 2 Merkelbach-West, p. 4 = [https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/154/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 1 Evelyn-White, pp. 154, 155] = Scholia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], 3.1086 (Wendel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0lkhbarJcukC&pg=PA248 p. 248])].</ref> The latter parentage, however, it seems was not a part of the ''Catalogue'', but rather a mistake on the part of the scholion.<ref>West 1985, p. 51 says that "it seems hard to resist the conclusion that Deukalion, not Prometheus, was his father [in the ''Catalogue'']", and that "Prometheus' name must have been accidentally repeated [by the scholion] from the line before". While, according to Gantz, p. 164 the scholion "has probably garbled something in transmission", and "it seems better to presume miscopying and emend the scholion". See also Caduff, [https://archive.org/details/antikesintflutsa0000cadu/page/86/mode/2up?view=theater p. 86].</ref> A scholion on the ''[[Odyssey]]'' similarly calls Hellen a son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, giving his siblings as [[Amphictyon]], [[Protogeneia]], and [[Melanthea]] ([[Melantho]]). The scholion, however, also states that "some say that Hellen was the son of Zeus by birth but was said to be the son of Deucalion",<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.47.xml fr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47] [= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia on [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'' 10.2 (Dindorf, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_l6oNAAAAQAAJ/page/n45/mode/2up?view=theater p. 444])].</ref> leading [[M. L. West]] to consider Hellen's real father in the ''Catalogue'' to in fact be Zeus, and Deucalion only, in West's words, his "nominal father".<ref>West 1985, pp. 51, 53, 56, 173, table 1; cf. ''[[Brill's New Jacoby|BNJ]]'', commentary on 239 A6; D'Alessio, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bxt75JJ_v2gC&pg=PA222 p. 222]; Gantz, p. 167 with n. 2; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA130 p. 130].</ref>

[[Plutarch]], in his ''[[Moralia]]'', quotes a passage from the ''Catalogue'' in which Hellen is the father of three sons, [[Dorus]], [[Xuthus]], and [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]].<ref>Hunter, pp. 283&ndash;4; [[Plutarch]], ''[[Moralia]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_table_talk/1961/pb_LCL425.293.xml 747F (pp. 292, 293)] [= [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.49.xml fr. 9 Most, pp. 48, 49] = fr. 9 Merkelbach-West, p. 7 = [https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/156/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 4 Evelyn-White, pp. 156, 157]]; Gantz, p. 167; Hall, p. 85; Asquith, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bxt75JJ_v2gC&pg=PA277 p. 277].</ref> He does not, however, give the source of the passage;<ref>Hunter, p. 283; Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 57.</ref> it is instead the Byzantine poet [[John Tzetzes]] who attributes it to the ''Catalogue''.<ref>Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 with nn. 54&ndash;7; [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 286 (Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 54; Scheer, p. 121) [= Scholia on [[Lycophron]]'s ''Alexandra'', 286 (Cardin and Pontani, p. 257 n. 54; Leone, p. 58) = [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.49.xml fr. 9 Most, pp. 48, 49]]. Tzetzes takes the passage from a scholion on [[Lycophron]]'s ''Alexandra'', and quotes it several times in different works: once in his own commentary on [[Lycophron]]'s ''Alexandra'', and twice in his ''Exegesis of the Iliad'' (Papathomopoulos, pp. 94&ndash;5, 430). The scholion only attributes the passage to "Hesiod", whereas Tzetzes specifies the work.</ref> Though no mother is specified in the passage, West suggests that she was one "Othryis", the nymph of [[Mount Othrys]], based upon the mothers given by [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] and a scholion on [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium]]'' (see below).<ref>West 1985, p. 57.</ref>

A scholion on [[Thucydides]]' ''[[History of the Peloponnesian War]]'' attributes to [[Hecataeus of Miletus|Hecataeus]] (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC) a very different genealogy of Hellen, in which he is not the son of Deucalion but rather the grandson, being the son of one "[[Pronous (mythology)|Pronous]]", himself the son of Deucalion, alongside "[[Orestheus]]" and "[[Marathonius]]".<ref>Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142], [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA144 p. 144, figure 4.3]; Gantz, p. 167; ''[[Brill's New Jacoby|BNJ]]'', commentary on 1 F13; Scholia on [[Thucydides]], 1.3.2 (Hude, [https://archive.org/details/scholiainthucydi0000hude/page/4/mode/2up?view=theater p. 5]) [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0001.bnjo-1-ed-grc:f13 1 F13] = [[Hecataeus of Miletus|Hecataeus]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 fr. 13 Fowler, p. 128]].</ref> According to a scholion on [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' citing [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]] (fl. late fifth century BC), Hellen "was born to Deukalion and Pyrrha, or according to some, to Zeus and Pyrrha", and was the father, by "Othreis", of Dorus, Xuthus, Aeolus, and in addition a daughter, named [[Xenopatra]].<ref>''[[Brill's New Jacoby|BNJ]]'' 4 F125 [= Scholia on [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' 208d (Cufalo, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4mcRM5_M8C&pg=PA108 pp. 108&ndash;10]) = ''[[FGrHist]]'' 4 F125 = [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanicus]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA200 fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200&ndash;1]]. Cf. [[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on [[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'', 277.17 (Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142]); see Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142]; Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=12 p. 12 n. 29].</ref>

[[Conon]] (before 444 BC – after 394 BC), in his ''Narrations'', similarly considers Hellen to be the son of Deucalion, and the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, though he also notes that "some" say he is the son of Zeus.<ref>[[Conon]], ''Narrations'' 27 (Trzaskoma, Smith and Brunet, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lWruCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 p. 86]) [= [[Photius]], ''[[Bibliotheca (Photius)|Bibliotheca]]'' 186 (Harry, pp. 20&ndash;1)].</ref> A scholion on [[Pindar]], in contrast, makes Deucalion the brother of Hellen (rather than the father), and them both sons of Prometheus.<ref>West 1985, p. 57; Scholia on [[Pindar]]'s ''Olympian'' 9.68b (Drachmann, [https://archive.org/details/scholiaveterain00dracgoog/page/n312/mode/2up?view=theater p. 283]); Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=hellen-bio-1 s.v. Hellen].</ref>

[[Vitruvius]] (c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC), in his ''[[De architectura]]'', calls Dorus the son of Hellen by the "nymph [[Phthia (mythology)|Phthia]]",<ref>[[Vitruvius]], ''[[De architectura]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/vitruvius-architecture/1931/pb_LCL251.203.xml 4.1.3 (pp. 202&ndash;5)].</ref> while [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] (c. 60 BC – after 7 BC) apparently considered [[Amphictyon]] to be Hellen's son (usually Hellen's brother).<ref>Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142]; [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/4B*.html#25.3 4.25.3]; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=amphictyon-bio-1 s.v. Amphictyon]; Cary, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/4B*.html#note54 n. 54 to 4.25.3]: "The Greek words can mean either "the son of Hellen" or "the Greek"; but the latter does not seem to be a very natural way of describing him".</ref>

[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] (c. 64 BC – AD 17), in his ''[[Fabulae]]'', at one point calls Hellen the son of Zeus by Pyrrha,<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#155 155]; cf. ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.18.4 2.18.4].</ref> while later, he is listed among the sons of [[Poseidon]], where he is called his son by [[Antiope (Greek myth)|Antiope]] (the son of [[Aeolus (Odyssey)|Aeolus]], who is usually Hellen's descendant), and the brother of [[Boeotus]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157].</ref>

According to the mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] (first or second century AD), Hellen's parents are Deucalion and Pyrrha, and his siblings Amphictyon and Protogeneia, or according to "some", his parents are Zeus and Pyrrha.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.7.2 1.7.2] [= Scholia on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 13.307].</ref> Apollodorus, similarly to the ''Catalogue'' and other sources, calls him the father of Dorus, Xuthus and Aeolus; however, he specifies the nymph [[Orseis]] (rather than Othreis) as their mother.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.7.3 1.7.3]. West 1985, p. 57, says that both Othreis and Orseis are "probably" corruptions of Othryis, a nymph of [[Mount Othrys]].</ref>

According to the Byzantine chronicler [[John Malalas]] (c. 491 – 578), Hellen was the son of "Picus Zeus",<ref>[[John Malalas]], ''Chronographia'' 2.45 (p. 27); cf. 4.4 (p. 33), where he is called the son of "Picus".</ref> and the father (rather than son) of Deucalion.<ref>[[John Malalas]], ''Chronographia'' 4.4 (p. 33).</ref> According to [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] (fl. 6th century AD), the historian [[Archinus (historian)|Archinus]] had Hellen as the father of one "[[Neonus]]", father of "[[Dotus]]", the latter of which gave his name to Dotium in Thessaly.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], [https://archive.org/details/STEPHANUSVONBYZANZMargaretheBillerbeckChristianZublerSTEPHANIBYZANTIIENICAIIpdf/page/n147/mode/2up?view=theater s.v. ''Dotion'' (II pp. 118, 119)] [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' 604 F3]; ''[[Brill's New Jacoby|BNJ]]'',  commentary on 604 F3.</ref>

== Progenitor and eponym of the Hellenes ==

Hellen was [[Thessaly|Thessalian]].<ref>Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=11 p. 11]; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 p. 128].</ref> [[Homer]], in the part of the ''[[Iliad]]'' known as the [[Catalogue of Ships]], mentions the [[Hellenes]] ({{lang|grc|Ἕλληνες}}) as a small tribe in Thessalic [[Phthia]], among those commanded by [[Achilles]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.653-2.694 2.681&ndash;4]; Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=10 p. 10]; March, [https://archive.org/details/March.Jenny_Cassells.Dictionary.of.Classical.Mythology/page/368/mode/2up?view=theater s.v. Hellen, p. 369]. Cf. [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.56.2 1.56.2&ndash;3].</ref> Similarly, according to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes, Hecataeus and "Hesiod" considered Deucalion's descendants to be Thessalian.<ref>Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=11 p. 11]; Scholia on [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], 4.265 (Wendel, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0lkhbarJcukC&pg=PA276 p. 276]) [= ''[[FGrHist]]'' [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0001.bnjo-1-ed-grc:f14 1 F14]] [= [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-catalogue_women/2018/pb_LCL503.47.xml fr. 6 Most, pp. 46, 47] = fr. 6 Merkelbach-West, p. 6 = [https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/156/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 5 Evelyn-White, pp. 156, 157]].</ref> According to [[Thucydides]], [[Achaea Phthiotis]], as the birthplace of Hellen,<ref>Cf. [[Gaius Julius Solinus|Solinus]], ''Polyhistor'' [https://topostext.org/work/747#8.1 8.1].</ref> was the home of the Hellenes; he says that before Hellen the name "Hellas" ({{lang|grc|Ἑλλάς}}) didn't exist, but rather there were various tribes which went under different names, particularly "[[Pelasgian]]".<ref>''[[Brill's New Jacoby|BNJ]]'', commentary on 1 F3; [[Thucydides]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng3:1.3.2 1.3.2].</ref> It was only when Hellen and his sons "grew strong in Phthiotis" that they allied with various cities in war and these cities, one by one, through their association with Hellen and his sons, came to be called "Hellenes", though it was a long time before the name came to be applied to all.<ref>Bury, p. 226; [[Thucydides]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0003.tlg001.perseus-eng3:1.3.2 1.3.2]. Thucydides uses the mention of the Hellenes in the ''[[Iliad]]'' to support his argument here, as there they refer only to the group in Phthia (who Thucydides calls the "original Hellenes").</ref>

== ''Melanippe Wise'' ==

Though primarily genealogical in importance,<ref>Gantz, p. 167: "The immediate offspring of Deukalion and Pyrrha, including indeed several generations, are primarily eponymous ancestors or intermediate place-holders rather than actors in any real narratives".</ref> Hellen does feature briefly in [[Euripides]]' lost play ''Melanippe Wise'' (c. 420 BC). In the play, [[Melanippe]], the daughter of [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]] (and thus the granddaughter of Hellen),<ref>Gantz, p. 734; [[Euripides]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.579.xml fr. 481 Collard and Cropp, pp. 578, 579] [= [https://archive.org/details/tragicorumgraeco00naucuoft/page/510/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 481 Nauck, p. 511] = ''Melanippe Wise'' 1&ndash;2 ([https://www.loebclassics.com/view/select_papyri_poetry_tragedy_5th_4th_centuries_bc/1941/pb_LCL360.119.xml Page pp. 118, 119])]; ''Melanippe Wise'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.573.xml test. 1 Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573]; cf. [[Euripides]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.523.xml fr. 929b Collard and Cropp, pp. 522, 523] [= [https://archive.org/details/tragicorumgraeco00naucuoft/page/366/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 14 Nauck, p. 366]].</ref> becomes by [[Poseidon]] the mother of twins, [[Aeolus (son of Poseidon)|Aeolus]] and [[Boeotus (son of Poseidon)|Boeotus]]. They are placed in a cowshed, leading Aeolus to think they are the "unnatural offspring of a cow",<ref>Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.569.xml pp. 568&ndash;9].</ref> and Hellen convinces Aeolus to burn the twins.<ref>Gantz, p. 734.</ref> This story is depicted on an [[Apulian]] [[volute krater]] dating to the late 4th century BC, in which a shepherd shows the twins to Hellen, in the presence of Melanippe, Aeolus, and Aeolus' son [[Cretheus]].<ref>''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73a4c5f9243d7-1 64 Hellen (S) 1], [https://www.iconiclimc.ch/limc/imageview.php?image=b4f84d6ae2c148108b5791436b49c723&total=1&term=%22Hellen+%28S%29%22 image 1 of 1]; [[Michael C. Carlos Museum]] [https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/14741 1994.001]; Bing, p. 13; Oakley, [https://www.ajaonline.org/sites/default/files/1134_Oakley.pdf#page=21 p. 619, figure 18]. For an extensive discussion of the vase, see Bing, pp. 13&ndash;6; see also Gantz, pp. 734&ndash;5; Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL504.571.xml p. 570]. The only iconographic representation of Hellen, Bing, p. 14 describes him here as a "hooded, grizzled old man" and Gantz, p. 735 as "grim".</ref>

== Genealogical chart ==
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== See also ==
* [[Names of the Greeks]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''Apollodorus. The Library, Volume I: Books 1-3.9'', translated by James G. Frazer, [[Loeb Classical Library]] No. 121, Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]], 1921. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL121/1921/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press]. [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
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