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Survey of the Ancient World
212. The
wandering
Greek herds-
men and
the settled
iEgean
civilization
yEgean not long after 2000 B.C. The Greek peninsula which
they had entered contains about twenty-five thousand square
miles.1 It is everywhere cut up by mountains and inlets of the
sea into small plains and peninsulas, separated from each
other either by
the sea or by the
mountain ridges
(Fig- 79>
These barbarian
Greek herdsmen
from the northern
grasslands (§ i4°
and Fig. 48) had
formerly led a
wandering pastoral
life like that which
we have seen also
in the southern
grasslands. But
now they were
entering a settlii
life among the
^Egean towns,
like Tiryns and
Myce'nee (§ 204)-
As the newcomers
Fig. 66.
Mount Olympus -
of the Gods
-the Home
Although Mount Olympus is on the northern
borders of Greece, it can be seen from Attica
and the south end of Eubcea. It approaches
ten thousand feet in height, and looks down
upon Macedonia on one side and Thessaly on
the other (see map, p. 124). As we look at it here
from the south, we have a portion of the plain
of Thessaly in the foreground, where the first
Greeks entered Hellas (§211), and where later the
earliest Homeric songs were composed (§ 231)
looked out across
the waters, they could dimly discern the islands where flourish'
ing towns were carrying on busy industries in pottery and
metal, which the ships of Egypt (Fig. 13) and the y£geans
(§ 201) were distributing far and wide.
1 It is about one sixth smaller than South Carolina — so small that Mount
Olympus on the northern boundary of Greece can be seen over a large part oi
the peninsula. From the mountains of Sparta one can see from Crete to the
mountains north of the Corinthian Gulf (see Fig. 79), a distance of two
hundred
and twenty-five miles.
Survey of the Ancient World
212. The
wandering
Greek herds-
men and
the settled
iEgean
civilization
yEgean not long after 2000 B.C. The Greek peninsula which
they had entered contains about twenty-five thousand square
miles.1 It is everywhere cut up by mountains and inlets of the
sea into small plains and peninsulas, separated from each
other either by
the sea or by the
mountain ridges
(Fig- 79>
These barbarian
Greek herdsmen
from the northern
grasslands (§ i4°
and Fig. 48) had
formerly led a
wandering pastoral
life like that which
we have seen also
in the southern
grasslands. But
now they were
entering a settlii
life among the
^Egean towns,
like Tiryns and
Myce'nee (§ 204)-
As the newcomers
Fig. 66.
Mount Olympus -
of the Gods
-the Home
Although Mount Olympus is on the northern
borders of Greece, it can be seen from Attica
and the south end of Eubcea. It approaches
ten thousand feet in height, and looks down
upon Macedonia on one side and Thessaly on
the other (see map, p. 124). As we look at it here
from the south, we have a portion of the plain
of Thessaly in the foreground, where the first
Greeks entered Hellas (§211), and where later the
earliest Homeric songs were composed (§ 231)
looked out across
the waters, they could dimly discern the islands where flourish'
ing towns were carrying on busy industries in pottery and
metal, which the ships of Egypt (Fig. 13) and the y£geans
(§ 201) were distributing far and wide.
1 It is about one sixth smaller than South Carolina — so small that Mount
Olympus on the northern boundary of Greece can be seen over a large part oi
the peninsula. From the mountains of Sparta one can see from Crete to the
mountains north of the Corinthian Gulf (see Fig. 79), a distance of two
hundred
and twenty-five miles.