The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European historyGrant, Madison
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The passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Grant, Madison
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158 : 1 _seq._ An interesting discussion of this event is given by
Salomon Reinach, 2. The invasion was resisted first at Thermopylæ and
later at Delphi. On p. 81 Reinach says: “In the detailed recital which
Pausanius has left us of the invasion of the Galatic bands in Greece,
dealing with the glorious part which the Athenians played in the defence
of the Pass of Thermopylæ. But, when the defile had been forced, the
Athenians departed and Pausanius makes no more mention of them in
relating the defence of Delphi, where only the Phocians, four hundred
Locrians and two hundred Ætolians figured. It is only after the defeat
of the Gauls that the Athenians, according to Pausanius, came back,
together with the Bœotians, to harass the barbarians in their
retreat....” On p. 83 he says: “The barbarians are incontestably the
Galatians.” See also by the same author, _The Gauls in Antique Art_. G.
Dottin, pp. 461–462 gives us the following: “Hannibal, traversing
southern Gaul, found on his passage only Gauls. On the other hand, Livy
mentions the arrival of Gauls in Provence at the same time as their
first descent into Italy, and Justinius places the wars of the Greeks of
Marseilles against the Gauls and Ligurians before the taking of Rome by
the Gauls. The invasion of the Belgæ is placed then in the third
century. It is doubtless contemporaneous with the Celtic invasion of
Greece which was perhaps caused by it.” See also the notes to p. 174 :
21 of this book. According to Myers, _Ancient History_, where the
account of these events is briefly given on pp. 269–270, the year was
278 B. C. Breasted, 1, p. 449, gives 280 B. C.
As late as the fourth century of our era, Celtic forms of speech
prevailed among the Galatians of Asia Minor. According to Jerome
(Fraser’s _Golden Bough_, II, p. 126, footnote), the language spoken
then in Anatolia was very similar to the dialect of the Treveri, a
Celtic tribe on the Moselle, of whose name Treves is the perpetuator.
“It was to these people that St. Paul addressed one of his epistles.”
It is interesting to note that at the present time the finest soldiers
of the Turkish army are recruited in the district of Angora which
includes the territory of ancient Galatia.
158 : 13. Procopius, IV, 13, says that a number of Moors and their wives
took refuge in Sicily and also in Sardinia where they established
colonies. The recent article by Giuffrida-Ruggeri sums up the data for
Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. See also Gibbon, _passim_, and Ripley, pp.
115–116.
158 : 16. G. Elliot Smith, 1, pp. 94 _seq._, and the notes to pp. 127 :
26 and 128.
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