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part of this new period (1200-800 B.C.) we have only the legendary 

 accounts of the Homeric and Hesiodic poems, which are now gen- 

 erally believed to be based upon, if not actually descriptive of, 

 episodes of this age. 



The Hellenes soon supplanted the Phoenicians as traders in the 

 southern JSgean ; and " if we now leave the monuments of the 

 Egyptian temple or the Assyrian palace and turn to the pages of 

 the Iliad and the Odyssey ... at once we are in the open air, 

 and in the sunshine of a natural life. The human faculties have 

 free play in word and deed. . . From the first the Greek is re- 

 solved to confront the facts of life." - Jebb. 



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MYRES, J. L. The Dawn of History. 



TYLOR, E. B. Anthropology and Primitive Culture. 



HADDON, A. C. History of A nthropology. 



JASTROW, MORRIS, Jr. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria. 



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