They called themselves Hellenes.
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As the Romans spread down the Italian peninsula they ran into atribe called the Graeci. As they went further, they ran into a lotof Hellenic cities, and thinking them the same people, called themthe Great Graeci (Greeks). The name has stuck, but the ‘reeks’today still think of themselves a Hellenes.