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OP referring to the culture of classical Greece:
"Hellenes became the name of all Greeks. But in mythical times Hellenes were those who dwelt about
Alope and Trachis, and held Phthia and Hellas (territories in Thessaly), land of fair women, as they
say. The people from this Thessalian region, called Myrmidons and Hellenes, sailed against Troy
under the command of Achilles.
The eponymous ancestor of the Hellenes is Hellen 1, son either of Deucalion 1 (the man who survived
the Flood), or of Zeus and Pyrrha 1. Deucalion 1 is one of the Three Main Ancestors, and his
descendants founded and ruled mainly Thessalian cities.
The sons of Hellen 1 were Aeolus 1, Dorus 1 and Xuthus 1 [for Xuthus 1 see Achaea, Ionia, and Ion
1]. The descendants of Hellen 1 became kings in several places: his grandson Deion ruled in Phocis
(region bordering the Gulf of Corinth, west of Boeotia), and Deion's grandson was Arcisius, king of
Ithaca and Odysseus' grandfather. Another grandson of Hellen 1 was Cretheus 1, king of Iolcus and
father of Pheres 1, who reigned in Pherae and became father of Admetus 1, husband of Alcestis. Yet
another grandson of Hellen 1, Amphictyon, became king of Athens, but this was a short-lived dynasty.
A granddaughter of Hellen 1, Pisidice 1, is mother of Actor 1, king of Phthia before the times of
Peleus and Achilles. Salmoneus, another grandson of Hellen 1, became king of Elis in the
Peloponnessus"
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