 None of the etymological sources appear to support the existence, save as a coincidence only, of a connection between the name of Helen and the name by which the classical Greeks commonly described themselves, namely "Hellenes", after Hellen (; ) the mythological progenitor of the Greeks.The origins of Helen's myth date back to the Mycenaean age.Her name first appears in the poems of Homer but scholars assume that such myths derive from earlier Mycenaean Greek sources.