Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . liefs, as in the storiesof Hybla, Hadranus, and the Palici. We have, as inthe story of Demeter and the Korc, a Greek talefitted to a Sikel sanctuary, and practically displacingthe old Sikel worship. Lastly, we have, in the storyof Alpheios and Arethousa, a Greek story simplycarried over to a Sicilian site. Thus the Greekinfluenced the Sikel and the Sikel influenced theGreek. It will always be so when two nations meetwhich are near enough to each other, as any two 38 THE LEGENDS. European nations are near enough, to influence oneanother. The Sikels were k
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . liefs, as in the storiesof Hybla, Hadranus, and the Palici. We have, as inthe story of Demeter and the Korc, a Greek talefitted to a Sikel sanctuary, and practically displacingthe old Sikel worship. Lastly, we have, in the storyof Alpheios and Arethousa, a Greek story simplycarried over to a Sicilian site. Thus the Greekinfluenced the Sikel and the Sikel influenced theGreek. It will always be so when two nations meetwhich are near enough to each other, as any two 38 THE LEGENDS. European nations are near enough, to influence oneanother. The Sikels were kinsfolk of the Greeks whohad lagged behind. They were not savages, nor hadthey, like the Phoenicians, a civilization of their ownquite different from that of the Greeks. We havenow to tell what came of the meeting of these nationsand of their influence on one another. The way inwhich the Sikels became Greek, that is, how Sicilybecame Greek, is the great feature of old Sicilianstory. That story we shall begin to tell in our IV THE GREEK SETTLEMENTS IN SICILY. 735-580. [Of llie Greek settlements in Sicily we have the precious sketch attlie beginning of the sixth book of Thiicydidcs, in which some say thathe followed the Syracusan writer Antiochos. The books of Diodorosin which he must have described them more fully are unluckily lost,save some fragments. A good deal may be learned from Strabo, fromwhom we see that there were often several stories current about thesame foundation. And there are casual notices in many places, inPlutarchs lesser works and elsewhere.] The Western Greeks at least had some vaguenotions of Sicily and the Sikels as carl) as the timeof the Odyssey. We there hear of a land calledSikanic, which can only mean Sicily, and of a peoplecalled Sikels, who may be those either of Sicily or ofItaly. With them the Greeks seem to have carriedon a brisk trade in buying and selling slaves. Thesuitors threaten to sell Odysseus to the Sikels, andold Lae
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