Hellen, in greek mythology, was the person from which all hellenes (greeks) were descended. He was the son of deucalion and pyrrha, and his brother was amphictyon. According to a scholion on apollonius of rhodes ' argonautica, hellen, in the poem, is called the son of pyrrha, by either deucalion, or alternatively, by prometheus (who is called the father of deucalion in …

He was the eponymous … In greek mythology, hellen was the man who gave his name to the hellenic people, a name now synonymous with the greek people.