Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ndCarians were nations renowned in war, and were not 2o8 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. likely to allow strangers to have possession, un-opposed, of their choicest territories, their sea-coast, and the mouths of theirrivers. Yet we have nopositive knowledge of thewars which must of ne-cessity have accompaniedthe establishment of theGreek settlers. Nor dothey appear to havebeen as long and^^fierce as might beexpected, for when realhistory begins, it shows usthe G
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ndCarians were nations renowned in war, and were not 2o8 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. likely to allow strangers to have possession, un-opposed, of their choicest territories, their sea-coast, and the mouths of theirrivers. Yet we have nopositive knowledge of thewars which must of ne-cessity have accompaniedthe establishment of theGreek settlers. Nor dothey appear to havebeen as long and^^fierce as might beexpected, for when realhistory begins, it shows usthe Greek cities clusteredin well organized con-federacies, individuallyflourishing, mutually pro-tected, and apparently un-molested by thesurround-ing population, with whichthey seem to have, to agreat extent, mingled byintermarriajTe and socialintercourse. Even reli-gion does not appear tohave formed any impass-able barrier be- (For the AVr^/^/w-winged bulls heads^within tWCCn them. Atihe disk, compare Story of Chaldea, p. 164.) SMYRNA KYME Myrina, Epiiesus, the Greeks found sanctuariesof the ancient Hittitc nature-goddess, with 30. STATlK OF THE ARTEMIS OF EPIIESUS LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR. 209 to them so novel, Amazonian worship, and unhesi-tatingly adopted the deity, merely changing hername to the familiar one of their own Oriental origin of the conception embodied inthe goddess is sufficiently shown by the uncouthbut transparent symbolism of her statue in her greattemple at Ephesus, foreign to all Greek principlesof beauty in art (see ill. 30), yet so expressive ofwhat it is meant to convey : the idea of nature asthe source of all life and nourishment. The sun-godof the Asiatics, too, in his different aspects, theGreeks easily identified with their own youthful andradiant god AiULLO, or their toiling, travelling semi-human solar hero, Herakles, himself an inheritanceof Phoeniciiu and Chaldea, a revised edition of theSyrian Melkarth and the Babylonian Th
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