MYTHS OF CRETE & PRE-HELLENIC EUROPE
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"It was in Ægean Ionia", writes Mr. Hall, "that the torch of Greek civilization was kept alight, while the homeland was in a mediæval condition of comparative barbarism; Cyprus, too, helped though she was too far off for her purer Minoan culture to affect the Ægean peoples very greatly. It was in Ionia that the new Greek civilization arose: Ionia, in whom the old Ægean blood and spirit most survived, taught the new Greece, gave her coined money and letters, art and poesy, and her shipmen, forcing the Phœnicians from before them, carried her new culture to what were then deemed the ends of the earth." 1
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314:1 In this tradition two Semitic rulers, Sharrukin and the later Shargan-Sharri, were confused.
315:1 Genesis, xiv, 1-2.
315:2 Ibid., xiv, 4 et seq.
318:1 That is, non-Greeks.
319:1 Herodotus, I, 173.
321:1 III, 46.
322:1 VIII, 2.
323:1 History of the Peloponnesian War, I, 4, 5 (Richard Crawley's translation).
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324:1 Breasted's History of Egypt. p. 319.
326:1 The Journal of Egyptian Archæology (January, 1914), pp. 18-19.
327:1 One theory is that Ictis is the Isle of Wight. Some geologists contend that at this period the island was not entirely cut off from the mainland. The Isle of Thanet has also been identified as Ictis. Another theory is that the reference is to St. Michael's Mount on the south coast of Cornwall, which is connected with the mainland at low water by a causeway.
328:1 Herodotus, VII, 170, 171.
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329:1 The Peloponnesian War, I, 2-8.
329:2 Before 1375 B.C.
330:1 The Dawn of History, p. 215.
330:2 The Peloponnesian War, I, 6-9.
331:1 Ezekiel, xvi, 3.
332:1 Iliad, Book I, 309-15 (Derby's translation).
333:1 Pronounced Moosh'ke. In the Old Testament they are referred to as "the Meshech" (Ezekiel, xxxii).
336:1 The Ancient History of the Near East, p. 79.
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