Poseidon's Paradise

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ATLANTIS VERSUS PELASGIA. A Few days later the Atlantean fleet sailed to the eastward to invade this upstart Pelasgia?these Pelasgians that had come from Western Asia by way of the Cycla- des to make an abiding place in the Greece of to-day, as well as the islands of the Egean Sea. A...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ATLANTIS VERSUS PELASGIA. A Few days later the Atlantean fleet sailed to the eastward to invade this upstart Pelasgia?these Pelasgians that had come from Western Asia by way of the Cycla- des to make an abiding place in the Greece of to-day, as well as the islands of the Egean Sea. A mysterious people were the Pelasgians. Their appearance among the past known races of the earth was sudden; their extinction has been complete. Yet we know they were peaceful, and fond of agriculture; that, under the favoring skies of their adopted land, they became the greatest merchants and sailors of most ancient times, antedating the renowned Phoenicians; that from Greece they passed over to Southern Italy, there, perhaps, to inaugurate that golden age of Saturn, when peaceful agricultural pursuits superseded the piratical habits of the Carians and Leleges. But this is little. However, their monuments endure. These are the vast Cyclopean remains of Greece and Asia that puzzle while the)r amaze. Evidently intended for fortification, they were built of huge polygonal stones, fitted together without cement and mortar, so perfectly as to survive the structures of succeeding ages and races. These are allthat are left to point to a people who, though forced everywhere to yield to the conqueror, must yet have been possessed of indomitable energy and perseverance. Though ineffaceable are their invisible imprints for good. Under Pelasgus, their leader and king, this colony won renown so quickly that it is no wonder Atlano should doubt its existence. But this knowledge proved the impetus he had been desiring. Now there was new life in the mere thought of the stifling of this menacing people. Thus the fleet went gayly sailing along the Middle Sea, so high were the hopes, so p...