. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . word sohcisin. or indeed any of the Cyprian inthe times of the Phoenician ascendency*we should have found a type of thecivilized life differing but little fromthat of the mother cities of Tyre, Sidon,and Byblus. It was only after the Greeksettlements in the island had becomeimportant that the distinctly Phccniciancharact
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . word sohcisin. or indeed any of the Cyprian inthe times of the Phoenician ascendency*we should have found a type of thecivilized life differing but little fromthat of the mother cities of Tyre, Sidon,and Byblus. It was only after the Greeksettlements in the island had becomeimportant that the distinctly Phccniciancharacter of the population, and of thearts and industries, was modified intoother forms and types. Governmentally,Cyprus was a monarchy, or kingdom,like those of the parent state. We havealready noted the fact that kingship as atype of government extended no furtherwest than this meridian; that is, in thehands of the Phoenicians. It would appear that of all the Phoeni-cian peoples the Cyprians had the high-est concept of art. The „. ,^ . ^ ?? ^ High artistic de- ruins of the island furnish veiopment of the I- 1 , Cyprians. specimens oi sculpturewhich may well be set in competitionwith that of the Greeks. It is difficultto know to what an extent this artistic. TEMPLE OF VENUS—FKOM A COIN OF CYPRUS, IN BRIT-ISH MUSEUM. development was the result of the cul-ture of the Greeks, and to what extentit was native. In some instances the 374 GREA T RA CES OE MANKIND. Cyprus for herbirthplace. marks of both influences are found onthe same artistic product. .Some of theCyprian sarcophagi—amoiig the finestin the world—are plainly the result of amixed art, in which the hand was guidedin part by the skill of the Phoenicianand in part by the delicate instinctof the Greek. There was a large artisticlife in the island in the days of itsancient prosperity, and the relics of thesame are scattered abundantly in manyplaces. The religious culture of the islandwas that of Astarte, or, as the Greeks.
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