member of a Teutonic tribe, Old English, from Latin Angli the Angles, literally people of Angul (Old Norse Ãngull), a region in what is now Holstein, said to be so-called for its hook-like shape (see angle (n.)). People from the tribe there founded the kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbia, and East Anglia in 5c. Britain.
Who Were the Greeks? Classicist Dr Michael Scott uncovers the strange, alien world of the ancient Greeks. He asks who were these people who gave us democracy, architecture, philosophy, language, literature and sport. Not available.
Ancient Greece is called 'the birthplace of Western civilisation'. About 2500 years ago, the Greeks created a way of life that other people admired and copied. The Romans copied Greek art and Greek gods, for example.he Greeks called themselves Hellenes, and their land was Hellas. The name Greece comes from the Romans. The name 'Hellenes' came from a legendary hero named Hellen (a man, and not the same as Helen of Troy). Some Greek philosophers did not mind shocking people or being laughed at.