Where did the word greek come from?

Anonymous

∙ 11y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

The modern theory is that the name from Graikhos, an inhabitant of Graia, a town on the east coast of Boeotia This was a name given by all Romans to Greeks. Greek colonists helped to found Cumae a city in southern Italy where the Latins first encountered the Greeks

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