Download or read book Hellenicity written by Jonathan M. Hall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For instance, he shows that the four main ethnic subcategories of the ancient Greeks - Akhaians, Ionians, Aiolians, and Dorians - were not primordial survivals from a premigratory period, but emerged in precise historical circumstances during the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.