Hellenists

Noun

Hellenist (plural Hellenists)

1. A specialist in the study of Greek language, literature, culture, or history, or an admirer of the Greek culture and civilization.
   • But it is no objection to a programme of research that it encounters difficult cases, and Hellenists with a hand in each field may even decide such territorial disputes.2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 7
2. A person who adopted the Greek customs, language and culture during the Hellenistic period, especially a Hellenized Jew.
3. A non-Greek follower and practitioner of Hellenic religion (aka Hellenism)