Commentary on Books IX-X; Boeotia, Phocis. Addenda (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...and a peculiar helmet adorned with a crescent and ball. In the reign of Merenptah (Minephtah), son of Ramses II., the Shardana and other "people of the sea" joined the Libyans in invading Egypt from the west, but the united host was defeated with great slaughter. It has been supposed by Mr. E. de Rouge and other scholars, including W. Max Miiller, that the Shardana were the Sardinians. Professor Maspero's view is that the Shardana were originally settled in the west of Asia Minor, and that after the failure of the attack on Egypt in the reign of Merenptah (Minephtah) they moved westward and settled in Sardinia. Professor Wiedemann, on the other hand, holds that the Shardana were a Libyan tribe inhabiting the north coast of Africa not far from Egypt, and he denies their connexion with Sardinia. But that they were a sea-faring people, not merely coast-dwellers, is placed beyond doubt by an Egyptian wallpainting, which represents them sailing in ships with high curved prows and poops and attacking the Egyptians, who are in ships of a different type. See E. de Roue, 'Sur les attaques dirigees contre l'Egypte par les peuples de la Mediterranee, Revue archiologique, N. S. 16 (1867), pp. 35-45, 81-103; G. Ebers, in Annali delt Inst, di Corr. Arch. 55 (1883), p. 121 sqq.; A. Wiedemann, Agyptische Geschichte, pp. 473-476; Ed. Meyer, Gesch. des Alterthums, 1. 234; id., Gesch. des alten Aegyptens, pp. 285 sq., 304 sqq.; Brugsch, 'Troy and Egypt, ' Appendix ix. to Schliemann's llios, pp. 745-751; Maspero, Histoire ancienne, pp. 219, 253 sqq., 270; F. Robiou, in Gazette archMogique, 7 (1881-1882), pp. 132-144; Perrot et Chipiez, Histoire de Part dans Vantiquite, 4. p. 14 sqq.; W. Max Miiller, Asien and Europa nach altdgyptischen Denkmalern (Leipzig, 1893...