Excerpt from Young Folks' History of Greece and Rome: Used in 7b Grade, Indianapolis Public Schools Oriental Immigrants - According to their own tradi tion they are indebted to Oriental immigrants for the introduction of the arts and culture of the East. From Egypt, legend affirms, came an Egyptian colony, bringing with it the arts, learning, and priestly wisdom of the Nile valley. Ce'crops, the leader of the colony, is saidto have founded Athens in 1556 B. C., and placed it under the protection of an Egyptian goddess, whose Greek name? Was Athena. _from the same land Dan'aus is also said to have come with his fifty daughters and to have built the city of Argos. (see Miss Yonge's Young Folks' History of Greece.) From Phoenicia, Cad mus brought the letters Of the alphabet and founded the cityof thebes.-compiled from Myers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.