Hellenophobia

See also: hellenophobia

English

Alternative forms

• hellenophobia

Etymology

Helleno- +‎ -phobia

Noun

Hellenophobia (uncountable)

1. Discrimination against Greeks.
   • 1920, Georges Bourdon, Hellas and Unredeemed Hellenism: The Policy of Victory in the East and Its Results:

     Since in Asia Minor, as well as at Constantinople, Turkophilism carries with it as corollaries Hellenophobia and Armenophobia, I will leave you to imagine in what paradoxes the souls of victors become entangled […]

   • 1961, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, A Study of History, volume 12, page 441:

     Their inveterate Hellenophobia was the only relic of the past that survived this great cultural revolution; and it now found for itself a new expression in Christian terms.

   • 2006, Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey:

     Believers in a traditional Hellenophobia-Turkophobia would have stared at the sight of the Mytilene Greeks spreading farewell meals for their departing neighbours, and later accompanying them to the quay, where Christians and Mohammedans, who for a lifetime had been plowing adjacently and even sharing occasional backgammon games at village cafes, embraced and parted with tears.

Related terms

• Hellenophobic