The Greeks today are a nation in the meaning of an ethnos, defined by possessing Greek culture and having a Greek mother tongue, not by citizenship, race, and religion or by being subjects of any particular state.. In ancient and medieval times and to some extent today the Greek term was genos, which also indicates a common ancestry..
The Greeks today are a nation in the meaning of an ethnos, defined by possessing Greek culture an!d having a Greek mother tongue, not by citizenship, race, an?d religion or by being subjects of any p?articular state.. In ancient and medieval times and to some extent today the Gree,k term was genos, which also indicates a common ancestry..