![]() ![]() It is now accepted that before the coming of the Greeks a common stock of people, proto-Indo-European as it appears, inhabited both the Greek peninsula and much of Anatolia. But the history of human settlement is even more significant than geography. It is often remarked that geographically Greece is part of the Near East: as if every day some new influence might wash up on shore. Near Eastern influence must also be defined and measured in a longer perspective. and some current theorizing is very much at risk. Linear B tablets continue to be unearthed. Existing evidence is also strong for Aphrodite, or rather, since that name is secondary, for Aphro, the attested form which gives the spring months Aphrios and AprHis. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 373 that Dionysus, Meter and the calendar were deep-rooted in Greece. ![]()
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