Helladic

[ he-lad-ik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Bronze Age culture on the mainland of ancient Greece c2900–1100 b.c.

Helladic

/ hɛˈlædɪk /

adjective

1. of, characteristic of, or related to the Bronze Age civilization that flourished about 2900 to 1100 bc on the Greek mainland and islands

Word History and Origins

Origin of Helladic¹

1795–1805; < Latin Helladicus < Greek Helladikós of, from Greece, equivalent to Hellad- (stem of Hellás ) Greece + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

Both the Griffin Warrior and the two tholos tombs belong on a pottery-based time scale to a period known as Late Helladic IIA, which lasted from 1600 to 1500 B.C.E., although the exact dates are disputed.

From New York Times

From shards found above and below the grave, however, Dr. Davis believes it was dug in the period known as Late Helladic II, a pottery-related chronology that corresponds to 1600 B.C. to 1400 B.C., in the view of some authorities, or 1550 B.C. to 1420 B.C., in the view of others.

From New York Times

It will not, for instance, make Greek nationalists happy to find that the dictionary accepts the antitraditional view that ancient Helladic culture was not created by Greek indigenes but by people who emigrated from what is now Turkey.

From Time Magazine Archive