A History of Ancient Geography Author:Henry Fanshawe Tozer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. SPREAD OF THE GREEK COLONIES. Geography advanced by the Greek Colonies—Causes of their Establishment— Qualifications for a Site—Early Developm... more »ent of the Colonies—Communication with the Natives—Information transmitted to Greece—Colonies on the Euxine—Dangers and Attractions ofthat Sea—Sinope, circ. 770 B.C.— Cyzicus on the Propontis—Colonies on the North Coast of the Euxine— Olbia, 645 B.c.—Panticapaeum (Kertch)—Dioscurias—Chalcidic Colonies in Thrace—Megarian Colonies in the Propontis : Byzantium, 658 B.c.— Greek Colonies in Italy, Cumae, Neapolis, Rhegium and Messana— Sybaris, 721 B.c.—Croton, 710 B.c.—Paestum—Metapontum—Locri— Tarentum, 708 B.C.—Colonies in Sicily: Naxos, 735 B.c.—Syracuse, 734 B.c.—Gela, 690 B.C.—Agrigentum, 580 B.C.—Himera, 648 u.c.—The Phocaeans at Massilia, 600 B.C.—Colonies of Massilia—Its Influence in Gaul—Cyrene, 63 1 B.c.—Its Site and Commerce—The Greeks in Egypt— Their Settlement at Naucratis, circ. 650 B.c.—Summary. The first great advance that was made in the study of ' t Geography was due to the spread of the Greek colonies along the shores of the Euxine and the ad Mediterranean, commencing with the eighth century lhe. Gl!eek p ' ' J Colonies. before the Christian era.) By their means the horizon of knowledge was rapidly and continuously extended, enquiry was promoted into the natural features of the interior of the neighbouring continents and the condition of their inhabitants, and an impulse was given to speculation on larger questions connected with the formation and constituent elements of the Earth. This remarkable movement, a phenomenon causes of in early Greek history second only to that of the their Estab- . ' - . . - Hshment. creat1on of the Homer1c poems, was due to more than one cause. In the first place, ...« less