A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . the more energetic and gifted Hellenes,the Pelasgians disappeared from view, leaving the ancestors ofthe lonians upon the coast of Asia Minor, and the ancestorsof the Dorians in the highlands of northern Greece. The onetribe was eventually to be the founders of Athens; the other,of Sparta. Foreign Influences. — The legends of the Greeks bear tracesof foreign influence from Phoenicia and Egypt, as well as fromPhrygia. It is probable that as early as the close of the ninthcentury the alphabet was introduced into Greece b
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . the more energetic and gifted Hellenes,the Pelasgians disappeared from view, leaving the ancestors ofthe lonians upon the coast of Asia Minor, and the ancestorsof the Dorians in the highlands of northern Greece. The onetribe was eventually to be the founders of Athens; the other,of Sparta. Foreign Influences. — The legends of the Greeks bear tracesof foreign influence from Phoenicia and Egypt, as well as fromPhrygia. It is probable that as early as the close of the ninthcentury the alphabet was introduced into Greece by thePhoenicians, who first came into contact with the Greeksthrough commercial visits to their ports. In later times, the 62 PEEHISTORIC AGE 63 Greeks were fond of tracing their knowledge of the arts toEgyptian sources; but it is probable that what they owed toEgypt was derived from lonians who had previously plantedthemselves in that country. The Dorian Migration. — It was in the prehistoric time thatthe Dorians left their home in northern Greece, and migrated. Lion Gate at Mycenae into Peloponnesus, where they proved themselves strongerthan the lonians and the Achaeans dwelling there. They leftthe Achaeans on the south coast of the Corinthian Gulf, in thedistrict called Achaia. Nor did they conquer Arcadia. Butof most of Peloponnesus they became masters. This is theportion of historic truth contained in the myth of the Returnof the Hefadidae, the descendants of Hercules^ to the old king-dom of their ancestor. 64 GrREECE Migrations to Asia Minor. — The Dorian conquest is said toliave been the cause of three distinct migrations to Asia Achaeans, with their Aeolic kinsmen on the north, estab- lislied themselves onthe northwest coast ofAsia Minor, Lesbosand Cyme being theirstronghokls, and by de-grees got control inMysia and the emigrants fromAttica j oined theirbrethren on the samecoast. The Dorians set-tled on the southwestcoast; they also settledCo
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