panhellenia

PANHELLE´NIA(πανελλήνια), a festival, or perhaps rather a panegyris of all the Greeks, which seems to have been instituted by the Emperor Hadrian, with the well-meant but impracticable view of reviving a national spirit among the Greeks. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. 2.1, 5; Boeckh, Corp. Inscrip. 1. p. 789, 2. p. 580.)