THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

WHO WERE THE MAKERS ? 205
Zeus in the guise of a bull from Phoenicia to Crete, where she
bore Minos. If additional proof were needed to show that the
Phoenicians did not create the Mycenean culture, one might
point to the striking absence of all Phoenician influence in an
island which in the pre-Homeric, Homeric, and early historical
period was in constant touch with north Palestine.
That there was a close
Cyprus.
connection between the main body
of the population of Cyprus and the Pelasgians of Arcadia is
clearly evidenced by the fact that the Cypriote and Arcadian
dialects are so much alike as to be commonly treated together
in works on Greek dialects and inscriptions^ This linguistic
relationship is supported by good historical evidence. In the
Catalogue of the Ships- Agapenor is the captain of the Arcadians
who went to Troy. Strabo^ tells us that Agapenor ft>unded
Paphos, and Pausanias'' that Agapenor, son of Ancaeus, son of
Lycurgus, reigned after Echenius, and led the Arcadians to
Troy. After the taking of Ilium the storm that overthrew the
Greeks on their homeward voyage carried Agapenor and the
Arcadian fleet to Cyprus, where Aga})enor founded Paphos, and
built the sanctuary of Aphrodite at old Paphos. Long generations
after Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor, sent a rube to
Athena Alea at Tegea with an inscription on the ofifering which
indicated the donor's Arcadian descent".
We saw that at Curium Myceiifan remains of much interest
were obtained by Mr H. B. Walters. Strabo-' says that
Curium
'
was foundoil ])y Argives.' This is
important, for
taken along with the of st(jry
it
Agapenor indicates that the
Mycenean culture entered Cy])rus not from the east, but from
the mainland of Hellas and fi'om the irreat ancient seat of the
Pelasgi. The story of the Teleliines having gone to Cvprus
from ('ret(! (p. I!)N) tends in the same direction.
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Cauer. Dclrrt. Insrn'pt. ('-ntl til.), ]ip. 'iH'.l
(Hall*', ISC.O), p. .". : Hotlniann,
Ciillip. I'flilola