Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . f nature had, it would seem, given rise to a divine personifi-cation of love in very remote early times among the nationsof the East. The Phoenicians called this personification As-tart e, and carried her worship with them wherever they es-tablished factories or markets in Greece, in the islands of theMediterranean, and on to Italy. The early Greeks comingin contact with these traders, and obtaining from them aknowledge of coinage, weights, measures, and other necessa-ries of commerce and trade—includ
Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . f nature had, it would seem, given rise to a divine personifi-cation of love in very remote early times among the nationsof the East. The Phoenicians called this personification As-tart e, and carried her worship with them wherever they es-tablished factories or markets in Greece, in the islands of theMediterranean, and on to Italy. The early Greeks comingin contact with these traders, and obtaining from them aknowledge of coinage, weights, measures, and other necessa-ries of commerce and trade—including, it is said, a systemof writing—appear to have transferred some of the functionsof the oriental goddess to their own Aphrodite, as, for in-stance, the function of protecting commerce. The earliestknown Greek coins—those of ^gina—the weights of whichcorrespond accurately with the oriental standard, have thefigure of a tortoise, the well-known symbol of Aphrodite. How much else of the character of their goddess the Greeksmay have derived from the Phoenicians it would be impossi-.
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