Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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pears that the older name ofthe people was in their own languageGraikoi, a term which the immigrantshad evidently applied to themselveswith a view to distinction from morebarbarous peoples. The word Graikoi,which subsequently, in the Latin form ofGrdecL became the designative of the DIS TRIBITTION OF THE RA CES.— WES T A R ) A N MIGR. I Tit >NS. 489 Hellenic race among all peoples, signi-fied old, or honorable. It was thus verynearly equivalent to the Latin senator.Aristotle declares that ancient Hellaswas the country about Dodona andAchelous. Here, he adds, livedthe Selloi and the people then called theGraikoi, afterwards the Hellenes. Thus itself the elements which were after-wards to be distributed in Italy and tobecome the germs of the The Greek mi- ° gration con- Italic, or Latin, race. The tainedthepo- , r . i . tency of the exact shape of the mi- itaiican.gration in this respect is, of course, un-known. It is sufficient to allege thatthe migratory wave out of Asia carried
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ROUTE OF THE GREEK ARYANS INTO HELLAS—Pass of Kalabaka, Thessaly.—Drawn by Taylor, from a photograph. it appears that the Greeks, in course oftime, rejected the older national nameand substituted Hellenes as the title bywhich they would be known among thenations. We may here pause to anticipate whatwill appear in a subsequent part of thepresent chapter; that is, that this Greek,or Hellenic, volume of tribal life flow-ing into Hellas contained along withM.—Vol. i—32 the potency of both the Greek andLatin peoples. The uncertainty is as towhich foreran the other. It is possiblethat those tribes which were destined toplant themselves in Italy were the van-guard of the whole movement. Again,it is possible that the Celts of the ex-treme west went before the Latins, butthe likelihood is that the Celtic stemwas bent around from the north of Eu- 490 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. rope and did not cross by way of thepeninsulas. It is possible also that theprehistoric Greek and Latin stocks hel

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