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163 : 14. Physical types of modern Greeks. See the authorities given on
p. 409 of Ripley’s book, and Von Luschan, pp. 221 _seq._ Von Luschan and
most other observers say that the modern Greeks, at least in Asia Minor,
are a very mixed people. See his curve for head form.
163 : 16. Von Luschan, p. 239: “As in ancient Greece a great number of
individuals seem to have been fair, with blue eyes, I took great care to
state whether this were the case with the modern ‘Greeks’ in Asia. I
have notes for 580 adults, males and females. In this number there were
8 with blue and 29 with gray or greenish eyes; all the rest had brown
eyes. There was not one case of really light colored hair, but in nearly
all the cases of lighter eyes the hair also was less dark than with the
other Greeks.” See Ripley for European Greeks.
163 : 19. Albanians. Deniker, 2, pp. 333–334; Von Luschan, p. 224;
Ripley, p. 410. Most Albanians are tall and dark. C. H. Hawes, _Some
Dorian Descendants_, p. 258 _seq._, says that the percentage of light
eyes over light hair is nearly ten times as great, _i. e._, there is 3
per cent of light hair to 30–38 per cent light eyes among Albanians and
selected Greeks and Cretans. Also Glück, _Zur Physischen Anthropologie
der Albanesen_, pp. 375–376, and the note to p. 25 : 25 of this book.
Hall gives some interesting data on p. 522 of his _Ancient History of
the Near East_.
163 : 26. See the note to p. 138 : 1 _seq._
164 : 4 _seq._ Dinaric type identified with the Spartans. See C. H.
Hawes, _op. cit._, pp. 250 _seq._, where he discusses the Spartans and
the Dinaric type, and Hall, _Ancient History of the Near East_, pp. 74
and 572.
164 : 12. On p. 57 of his _History of Greece_ Bury inclines to the
belief that the Dorians came through Epirus, and attributes the cause of
their invasion to the pressure of the Illyrians, to whom the Dorians
were probably related. It is known that the Illyrians were round-headed.
Finally they left the regions of the Corinthian Gulf, and sailed around
the Peloponnesus to southeast Greece, where they settled, leaving only a
few Dorians behind, who gave their name to the country they occupied,
but ever afterward were of no consequence in Greek history. Some bands
went to Crete, others on other islands and some to Asia Minor.
164 : 15. Character of the Spartans. See Bury, _History of Greece_, pp.
62, 120, 130–135.
164 : 22. See p. 153 of this book.
165 : 6 _seq._ _Cf._ the note to p. 119 : 1 and that to p. 223 : 1.
165 : 10. G. Elliot Smith, _Ancient Mariners_.
165 : 14. See the note to p. 242 : 5 on languages.
166 : 3. Gibbon, chap. XLVIII.
CHAPTER VI. THE NORDIC RACE
167 : 1 _seq._ _Cf._ Peake, 2, p. 162, and numerous other authorities.
Peake’s summary is brief, clear and up to date.
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