Notes:

1. While this term was first used by Herodotus to characterize King Amasin of Egypt who was friendly to the Greeks, it took on a more specific meaning during the 18th century. The "love towards Greeks or Greece" by the Europeans had to do with supporting the cause of Greek independence based on various motives but mainly upon an admiration of ancient Greek culture which inspired a positive and popular approval and support to the Greek cause in Europe. Among famous European Philhellenes were Lord Byron, Goethe, Shelley, Pushkin and Delacroix.

2. Wilhelm von Humboldt in Geschichte des Verfalls und Unterganges der griechischen Freistaaten, 1807, as cited in Stathis Gourgouris, Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, p. 123.

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