WHY GREECE? Hellas = Greece. This is the official name of our birthplace. The name Greece comes from the ancients who called it Graikos and then adopted by the Romans into Graecia. It is the land of the Hellenic people, of the Hellenistic period and the philosophy of Hellenism. Hellas, Helen, Helene aka Eleni means light. That is what strikes you when you visit Greece; the light, the sun, the brilliance of the sky is unbelieve…more so against the vivid blue of the Aegea