Herculaneum, past, present & future . ofCambridge nineteen years before the birth of Alexander theGreat. Beloch,^ indeed, has attempted to weave these tales intoserious history, but the elaborate structure which he gave tothe world in 1879 he himself mercilessly shattered in theappendix to his second edition eleven years later. He mayeven be held to have carried his self-criticism in some points alittle too far. Nevertheless it is probably safe to accept hislater conclusion ^ that we have no proof of Greek colonisationin Italy earlier than the eighth century before Christ. Traditionstrongly su
Herculaneum, past, present & future . ofCambridge nineteen years before the birth of Alexander theGreat. Beloch,^ indeed, has attempted to weave these tales intoserious history, but the elaborate structure which he gave tothe world in 1879 he himself mercilessly shattered in theappendix to his second edition eleven years later. He mayeven be held to have carried his self-criticism in some points alittle too far. Nevertheless it is probably safe to accept hislater conclusion ^ that we have no proof of Greek colonisationin Italy earlier than the eighth century before Christ. Traditionstrongly supports the antiquity of the Ionian settlement atCumae ; and it is possible that Dicaearchia,* Parthenope, and 1 Cf. Coopers Annals of Cambridge, 1842, vol. i. p. 2 ; the authorities includeNicholas Cantalupe, John Lydgate, and Dr. Caius. 2 In Campanien, ist ed. 1879, ^^^ ^^- 1890.^ Beloch, Campanien, 1890, p. 436. * Cf. Mommsen, Roman History, book i. chap. x. ; other traditions are mentionedin Beloch, Campanien, 2nd ed. 1890, p. TURKK BRONZE ROMAN PORTRAIT STATIES. ii). Lifc-sizc. Two views of Lucius Mammius Mjximus, priest of Augustus; Marcus Calatorius and Tiberius. CHAP. II INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT 87 Neapolis were all Cumaean foundations ; but on this point nocertainty can be attained. The epigraphical evidence, whichrests chiefly on grave-stones and coins from Cumae andNeapolis, is said by Beloch ^ to show a typically Chalcidianalphabet with traces of Aeolism. The question of Etruscan domination in Campania has beenhotly debated. It was at one time altogether denied, Niebuhr, but is accepted to some extent by Mommsenand vigorously maintained by Beloch. Von Duhn^ in 1879attacked Belochs views and reasserted Niebuhrs have no space to enter into the details of this controversy,but Von Duhn seems to have proved the complete absence atthat time of adequate archaeological evidence. Beloch wasreduced to staking almost his whole case upon certai
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