Identifier: cu31924091762140 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s employedby the story-tellers to indicate in general terms the heroesof their tales. We can understand how strangers, placed atthe mercy of their dragoman, were misled by this, andtempted to transform each title into a man, taking Prutiand Piraui to be Pharaoh Proteus and Pharaoh Pheron,each of them celebrated for his fabulous exploits. Theguides told Herodotus, and Herodotus retails to us, assober historical facts, the remedy employed by thisunhistorical Pheron in order to recover his sight; theadventures of Paris and Helen at the court of Proteus, andthe droll tricks played by a thief at the expense of the ^ Some dragomans identified the Helen of the Homeric legend with the THE STEP PYRAMID AT SAQQARAH 359 simple Rhampsinitus, The excursions made by the Greektraveller in the environs of Memphis were very similar tothose taken by modern visitors to Cairo : on the oppositebank of the Nile there was Heliopolis with its temple ofEa, then there were the quarries of Turah, which had been
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THE STEP PYKAMID SEEJT FROM THE GEOVE OP PALM TKEES TO THE KQUTII OP SAQQARAH. worked from time immemorial, yet never exhausted, andfrom which the monuments he had been admiring, and thevery Pyramids themselves had been taken stone by stone.^The Sphinx probably lay hidden beneath the sand, and the foreign Aphrodite who had a temple in the Tyrian quarter at Memphis,and who was really a Semitic divinity. ^ Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Haussoullier. ^ These are the quarries in the Arabian Mountain, mentioned byHerodotus without indication of the local name. 360 THE LAST DAYS OF THE OLD EASTERN WORLD nearest Pyramids, those at Saqqarah, were held in smallesteem by visitors ; ^ they were told as they passed by thatthe step Pyramid was the most ancient of all, having beenerected by Uenephes, one of the kings of the first dynasty,and they asked no further questions. Their whole curiositywas reserved for the three giants at Gizeh and theirinmates, Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinos, and th

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