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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Westebk Ettbopk, its earliest occupants, Basques, Fins, or Celts ? ? Gomer and his sons; their history as gathered from the Bible. ? The Kimmerioi of the Odyssey; their connexion with 'the Nekuia of Homer; the difficulties thence arising considered; reasons for believing that Celtic races were settled in the districts with which the name of Kimmerioi is connected. ? The Sikeloi the most ancient people of southern and central Italy; their expulsion as related by Dionysius; the Kimmerioi, whom Ephorus locates at the Avernus, were Sikeloi left behind in the Peninsula, and must have been Celts from the topography of the country; Sikeloi found on both sides of the Adriatic; the people of Buchaetium in Epirus, living near the Kheimerion promontory, referred to in legend as Sikeloi; traces of Celtic topography in other parts of Greece. ? The Kimmerioi of Herodotus passed from the Crimea into Asia, and kept it in disquiet for some centuries; the story of the Greek historian in perfect agreement with Scripture. ? The story of an invasion of Aeolia and Ionia by the Kimmerioi before the time of Homer, probably originated in some blundered account of the invasion mentioned by Herodotus. The views entertained by Josephus with respect to the descendants of Gomer are valuable, but require correction; the Togarmah of Scripture the Trocmoi of Grecian history; Riphath, the Bebrukes inhabiting the Rhe- bantian district east of the Bosphorus; Ashkenaz, the men inhabiting Arzanene at the sources of the Tigris, not the Askania either of Homer or of Strabo. ? The Askanios, Otreus, and Mugdon of Homer mere appellatives; his knowledge of the Celtic tribes of Asia confined to those settled on the southern coast of the Euxine, and those dwelling on the frontiers of Lydia. ? Origin of the na...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217026468 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021702646X |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $23.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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