The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . i of Libya, and was fallowed by Brugsch {Gesch. Jlgyptens, pp. 578, 579).W. Max Miiller {Asien und Europa, pp. 371-379) revived the hypotheses of De Kouge and Chabas, andsaw in them bands from the Italian island. I am still persuaded, as I was twenty-five years ago,that they were Asiatics—the Mseonian triba which gave its name to Sardis {Revue Critique, 1873,vol. i. pp. 84-86; 1878, vol. i. p. 320; 1889, vol. i. pp. 109, 110 : cf. F. Lenoemant, Les Antiquit^s dela Troade, i. pp. 73, 75; Brugsch, 2roie et IEgypte, in , Troie,
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . i of Libya, and was fallowed by Brugsch {Gesch. Jlgyptens, pp. 578, 579).W. Max Miiller {Asien und Europa, pp. 371-379) revived the hypotheses of De Kouge and Chabas, andsaw in them bands from the Italian island. I am still persuaded, as I was twenty-five years ago,that they were Asiatics—the Mseonian triba which gave its name to Sardis {Revue Critique, 1873,vol. i. pp. 84-86; 1878, vol. i. p. 320; 1889, vol. i. pp. 109, 110 : cf. F. Lenoemant, Les Antiquit^s dela Troade, i. pp. 73, 75; Brugsch, 2roie et IEgypte, in , Troie, Eggeks trans., p. 983).The Scrdaui or Shardana are mentioned as serving in the Egyptian army in the Tel el-Amarna tablets. I am obliged here, for want of space, to limit my original plan. I have preserved of it only asummary description of Asia Minor, and the most necessary facts for understanding the history ofEgypt and Syria. Cf. for the geographical positions, Elisee Reclus, Geogr. Univ., vol. ix. p. 461, et seq. • Stbabo, xiv. ii. § 7, p. 302 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. forming meres, marshes, and lakes of fluctuating extent. The largest of theselakes, called Tatta, is salt, and its superficial extent varies witli the brief, the plateau of this region is nothing but an extension of the highlandsof Central Asia, and has the same vegetation, fauna, and climate, the sameextremes of temperature, the same aridity, and tlie same wretched and poverty-stricken character as the latter. The maritime portions are of an entirelydifferent aspect. The western coast which stretches into the ^Egean is furrowedby deep valleys, opening out as they reach the sea, and the rivers—the Caicus,the Hermos, the Cayster, and Meander—which flow through them areeffective makers of soil, bringing down with them, as they do, a continualsupply of alluvium, which, deposited at their mouths, causes the land toencroach there upon the sea. The littoral is penetrated here and there by
Size: 1266px × 1974px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecthistoryancient, booky
