Helle, a maiden who, with her brother Phrixus, fled on the golden-fleeced ram to escape from the cruelty of her step-dame Ino, and fell into the strait called the Hellespont after her, in which she was drowned. See Golden Fleece.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hellas * Hellenists