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What is the difference between Grecian, and Hellenic?


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What is the difference between "Grecian", and "Hellenic"?
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It's like the difference between coca-cola and soda.

Grecian is pertaining to all of ancient Greece. Hellenic refers to a particular time of Ancient Greece. Specifically after the death of Alexander the Great.
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>>1092737
That's Hellenistic you fucking mong.
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>>1092595
A reach around, iirc.
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>>1092737
Isn't Hellenistic after Alexander?
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>>1092595
Presumably 'Grecian' would be more centered on the physical region of Greece while 'Hellenic' would refer to Greek ethnicity/culture as a whole
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>>1092595
Gracian = the people of the city states of Greece proper, mostly in Southern Greece and largely following variations of non-autocratic governments

Hellenic = cultural Greeks far beyond the Greek core including Anatolians, Greek colonials, Macedonians, and Greek Eastern states.
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