* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.

In mainland Greece, a stream of individuals made their way to Delphi or the oracle of Zeus at Dodona, and once every four years, at the period of the Olympic games, the temple of Zeus at Olympia formed the goal of swarms of pilgrims from every part of the Hellenic world.

He also remained an active member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee.

When Hellenic crews had to spend their night in London, British crews would fly the Olympic Comets to BEA destinations, and the same with Greek crews and BEA Comets.

The delegation of 426 athletes, 215 men and 211 women, was represented by the Hellenic Olympic Committee.

The Mediterranean Games, in terms of the preparation and composition of the National Delegation, are held under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee and the Hellenic Olympic Committee ( HOC ).

After being released from his duties, he became the Ambassador at Large of the Hellenic Republic and a few years later the Director General of the International Olympic Truce Center ( International Olympic Committee organization ).

Jellicoe was a member of the Onassis International Prizes Committee ( 1983 – 1992 ); a vice-president of The European-Atlantic Group and of the Byron Society ; he was on the board of the Hellenic College London ; patron of the City of Southampton Society ; a patron of the Greek Archaeological Committee ( UK ); one of five patrons of The Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon ; a director of The Landscape Foundation ( now dormant ); patron of Friends of The Royal Hospital School ; patron of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology ; a member of the World Innovation Fund ( WIF ) and an associate member of INEED.

* The American Hellenic Institute, an advocacy group for Greek Americans, and its lobbying arm, the American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee.

In the administration of Costas Simitis, he was the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament for a number of years.

He previously held the positions of the Associate Professor at Yale University, the Chairman of the Committee for Human Rights in the Bar Association of Washington, D. C., the Ambassador at Large of the Hellenic Republic, the Vice President of the European Parliament and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece.

There are many more nationally-based organizations such as the Schweizerische Licht Gesellschaft ( SLG ) in Switzerland, the Association des Concepteurs Lumière et Éclairagistes ( ACE ) in France, the Hellenic Illumination Committee ( HIC ) in Greece and the Associazione Professionisti dell ' Illuminazione ( APIL ) in Italy.

Thus the " Aegean Area " has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia.

From the Hellenic system onwards, the policy rationale for requiring the payment of monetary compensation for wrongs committed has involved the avoidance of feuding between clans and families.

The structure has been since found to be a semicircular retaining wall of Hellenic origin that was partly restored during the Roman period.

It has been thought that the Ionian migration from Greece carried with it some part of a population which retained the artistic traditions of the Mycenaean civilization, and so caused the birth of the Ionic school ; but whether this was so or not, it is certain that from the 8th century BC onwards we find the true spirit of Hellenic art, stimulated by commercial intercourse with eastern civilizations, working out its development chiefly in Ionia and its neighbouring isles.

Historically, Europe has always been a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Celtic, Hellenic, Illyrian, Thracian and other cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Christian, Muslim and other belief systems ; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Imperial Roman Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age.

As long as it is recalled that the myth of Asterion, who appears in no anecdotal Hellenic context, is Minoan, it will be perceived that the figure of Zeus is an interloper, and that rather than the " stepfather " role to which he has been displaced, Asterion is originally the father of the Underworld progeny.

Thus the " Aegean Area " has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian islands, and Western Anatolia.

* Hellenic Imperial Airways has its United Kingdom offices in Axis House in Harlington.

Hellenic Imperial Airways has its United Kingdom offices in the Axis House in Harlington in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The current Hellenic Republic has long challenged King Constantine's right to use his title ; in 1981, the then Greek President Konstantinos Karamanlis declined to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales when it was revealed that Greece's deposed monarch, a cousin of the Prince, had been referred to as ' King ' in his invitation.

Because of King Ludwig's passion for everything Hellenic, the German name for Bavaria today is spelled " Bayern ", while the language spoken there has retained its original spelling " Bairisch "— note the I versus the " Hellenic " Y.

This has been linked by the media to the failure of the 2E to be selected for the Hellenic Army in 2002, a competition won by the Leopard 2.

The Greek language is the official language of the Hellenic Republic and has a total of 15 million speakers worldwide ; it is an Indo-European language.

** Ernesto Millán Escalante Park ( previously known as Culiacán ' 87 ): It has many pools, attractions, an artificial lake, gardens, sports courts, the longest water slide in northern Mexico, an open air Hellenic theatre, etc.

It has the Culiacán Library, the Culiacán Zoo, the second Dancing Fountains in city where people go when it's hot, sports courts, a big run track and a Hellenic theater.

Greek religion has experienced a number of revivals, in the arts, humanities and spirituality of the Renaissance as well as with the contemporary Hellenic Reconstructionism, or " Hellenismos " as it is sometimes called ( a term first used by the last pagan Roman emperor Julian the Apostate ).

The Nicene empire has been seen by some scholars as a period which saw the rise of ethnic Hellenic consciousness and Greek nationalism.

The Hellenic Air Force has a major base in Skyros, because of the island's strategic location in the middle of the Aegean.

According to the Greek historical texts, which bring mention of the city of Sialkot dating back to before 327 BC when the city was known as Sagala, it represented the eastern-most outpost and expansion of the Hellenic Empire created by Alexander the Great which has been cross-correlated to ancient Greek maps of the era and several monuments found in the Sialkot District.

Another local football club, Marlow United F. C., has been promoted to the Hellenic Football League Premier Division for the 2008 / 09 season.

Hellenic Steel industry ( Ελληνική Χαλυβουργία ) also has production facilities in Volos, and

The Hellenic Army has taken part in the following engagements:

As of 2012, the Hellenic Republic has mandatory military service ( conscription ) of 9 months for all males between the ages of 18 and 45.

The structure of Hellenic Army ranks has its roots in British military traditions and follows NATO standard rank scale.

* A sibling language of Greek within Indo-European, Macedonian and Greek forming two subbranches of a Greco-Macedonian subgroup within Indo-European ( sometimes called " Hellenic "), suggested by Joseph ( 2001 ), Georgiev ( 1966 ) and others.

A family under the name " Hellenic " has been suggested to group together Greek proper and the ancient Macedonian language, which is barely attested and whose degree of relatedness to Greek is not well known.

This view was challenged by the " rationalist " Mutazilite philosophers, who held a more Hellenic view, reason above revelation, and as such are known to modern scholars as the first speculative theologians of Islam ; they were supported by a secular aristocracy who sought freedom of action independent of the Caliphate.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Over the 4th century Macedon became more politically involved with the south-central city-states of Ancient Greece, but it also retained more archaic features like the palace-culture, first at Aegae ( modern Vergina ) then at Pella, resembling Mycenaean culture more than classic Hellenic city-states, and other archaic customs, like Philip's multiple wives in addition to his Epirote queen Olympias, mother of Alexander.

" Greco-Scythian " works depicting Scythians within a much more Hellenic style date from a later period, when Scythians had already adopted elements of Greek culture.

In 1978 the Greek government permitted the formation of Arab Hellenic Bank with 49 % Arab ownership, as an exception to its prohibition on foreign banks owning more than 40 % of the equity of a Greek bank.

The Hellenic calendar — or more properly, the Hellenic calendars, for there was no uniform calendar imposed upon all of Classical Greece — began in most Greek states between Autumn and Winter except the Attic calendar, which began in June.

He has published books on the balance between lore and science among the followers of Pythagoras, and more extensively on ritual and archaic cult survival, on the ritual killing at the heart of religion, on mystery religions, and on the reception in the Hellenic world of Near Eastern and Persian culture, which sets Greek religion in its wider Aegean and Near Eastern context.

She also retained the position after the 2007 election, managing to be elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament first among all the candidates in the Athens A ' constituency once more.

George Poulopoulos ( Arky Michael ) is more interested in playing soccer for the Combined Hellenic Travel Agents but reluctantly joins to play bass.

Taking advantage of the internal political and personal disputes in IMRO, Katehakis and Karavangelis initially succeeded to recruit some IMRO former members and to organize guerrilla groups, that were later reinforced with people sent from Greece and thus were mainly composed of ex-officers of the Hellenic Army, volunteers brought from Crete, from the Mani area of the Peloponnese, as well as Macedonian Greeks, such as Evangelos Natsis from the village of Asprogia, Lazaros Apostolidis from Kastoria, Captain Giaglis from Ierissos, Konstantinos Kottas from the village of Roulia, Florina Prefecture ( a former adherent of the IMRO ), Michael Sionidis, Captain Ramnalis, Pantelis Papaioannou, Stefanos Papagalos from Veria, Dimitrios Dalipis from Kastoria, Pericles Drakos from Kavala, Christos Dellios, Christos Argyrakos and many more.

The Latsis family fortune, managed by Spiros Latsis, includes more than 40 % in EFG Eurobank Ergasias, the second largest bank in Greece, and more than 30 % in Hellenic Petroleum, a major petroleum player in Southern Europe, through his ownership of Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S. A ..

Banbury languished in the Hellenic League for several years, and at times they suffered more financial problems.

The philosophy apparent in these texts combines a more semitic emphasis on practical wisdom with a Hellenic / Platonic concept of transcendent wisdom.

Ovid's mention of Paphos suggests that he was drawing on a more circumstantial account than the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus ' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD.

As in the Hellenic lands of Christendom, so also in Mauretania, Judaism involuntarily prepared the way for Islam ; and the conversion of the Berbers to Islam took place so much the more easily.

The Greek diaspora, also known as Hellenic diaspora or the diaspora of Hellenism, is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in southeast Europe and Asia Minor.

The Hellenic states allied to, or more accurately under the hegemony of, Macedon provided contingents of heavy cavalry and the Macedonian kings hired mercenaries of the same origins.