BABYLON AND PERSIA

208 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA.likely to allow strangers to have possession, un¬opposed, of their choicest territories, their sea-coast,and the mouths of theirrivers.Yet we have nopositive knowledge of thewars which must of ne¬cessity have accompaniedthe establishment of theGreek settlers.Nor dothey appear to havebeen as long andfierce asmight beexpected, for when realhistory begins, it shows usthe Greek cities clusteredin well organized con¬federacies, individuallyflourishing, mutually pro¬tected, and apparently un¬molested by thesurroundingpopulation,withwhichthey seem to have, to agreat extent, mingled byintermarriage and socialintercourse. Even reli¬gion does not appear tohave formed any impass¬able barrier be¬30. STATUE OF THE ARTEMIS OF EPIIESUS,tween them. At(For the Kerubim winged bull's headswithinthe disk, compare " Story of Chaldea," p. 164.) SMYRNA KVIVIEMyrina, Ephesus, the Greeks found sanctuariesof the ancient Hittite nature-goddess, with the.