HELLENIC 



Helmet. Types of ancient Greek helmets. A, is a Syrian helmet, a probable adaptation from the Greek 



Hellenic Studies, SOCIETY FOR 

 THE PROMOTION OF. Society found- 

 ed in 1879 by a number of scholars 

 interested in the subject. Its object 

 is to promote the study of every- 

 thing connected with the language, 

 literature, and art of ancient and 

 modern Greece, particularly the re- 

 sults of modern research and ex- 

 cavations. The Journal of Hellenic 

 Studies, issued by the society, con- 

 tains an account of the researches 

 and matters of interest concerning 

 Greek life. Its offices are at 19, 

 Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C. 



Hellenism. Term applied to 

 the school of culture which sought 

 models of artistic expression in the 

 art of ancient Greece. Its chief 

 characteristics in the best period, 

 both in art proper and in literature, 

 were restraint, and a sense of pro- 

 portion and harmony. See Classical 

 Education ; Greek Art ; Greek 

 Language and Literature. 



Hellenist (Gr. hellenistes). Term 

 meaning literally one who speaks or 

 writes pure Greek, then one who 

 affects the use of Greek manners, 

 modes of thought, or language. It- 

 was specially applied to those Jews 

 who adopted Greek as their lan- 

 guage, and afterwards Jbo any non- 

 Greek who did the same. See Greek 

 Language and Literature. 



Heller. Austrian coin. Its 

 value is 1-1 00th part of a krone, 

 and it is thus the equivalent repre- 

 sentative of the centime. Normally 

 it is coined in bronze as one and 

 two heller pieces, and in nickel as 

 10 and 20 heller pieces. The con- 

 ditions after the Great War forced 

 an almost entirely paper currency 

 on Austria, and notes of 20 heller 

 value were issued. 



Heller, STEPHEN (1815-88). 

 Hungarian pianist and composer. 

 Born at Pest, May 15. 1815, he 

 studied music 

 in Vienna, and 

 early devel- 

 oped great 

 powers as a 

 pianist. He 

 composed 

 many short 

 pieces for the 

 piano, as well 

 Stephen Heller, as some excel- 

 Hungarian pianist i e n t studies, 

 and was a most successful teacher. 

 He died in Paris, Jan. 14, 1888. 



Helles, CAPE, OR HELLES BURNU. 

 Promontory at the S. extremity 

 of the peninsula of Gallipoli, near 

 the entrance to the Dardanelles. 

 The beaches adjacent were utilised 

 as landing places for troops at the 

 beginning of the Gallipoli cam- 



paign in 1915. There is a light- 

 house on the point. See Gallipoli, 

 Campaign in. 



Hellespont (mod. Dardanelles). 

 In ancient geography, strait sep- 

 arating the Thracian Chersonese 

 from Asia. It was supposed to have 

 derived its Greek name Helle- 

 spontos (sea of Helle) from Helle. 

 daughter of Athamas, who in her 

 flight from her stepmother, Ino, 

 on the ram with the golden fleece, 

 fell into the sea and was drowned. 

 Its width varies from 6 m. to less 

 than 1 m., its narrowest part being 

 between Sestos and Abydos (g.v. ). 

 Hellespontos was also the name of 

 a province, consisting of N. Mysia, 

 in the reign of Diocletian. See 

 Dardanelles; Leander. 



Helleu, PAUL CESAR (b. 1859). 

 French painter and etcher. Born 

 at Vannes, he began by painting 

 old churches and landscapes. A 

 Study of Versailles is in the 

 Luxembourg. Later he turned to 

 portraits in dry-point of fashion- 

 able women : one may cite those of 

 the duchess of Marlborough, the 

 countess of Wai-wick, and the 

 duchesse de Noailles. Delicate and 

 graceful, these tinted etchings 

 aroused much attention at the 

 International Society's exhibitions 

 and elsewhere. 



