First contact Quote by James John Courtenay

“In fact, this communication seems to go so far back in time that we are gradually being led to perceive the possibility that the…

— Leonard William King

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of…

— Thomas Bulfinch

“There is no doubt whatever that these Keftiu of the Egyptians were Cretans of the Minoan Age. They used to be considered Phoenicians, but…

— Leonard William King

“Relatively the Canaanites were a cultured and active people, as Egyptian and other literary remains prove. From them the Israelites probably gained some knowledge…

— John Courtenay James

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages with various…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“We have been accustomed to look to the East -to Mesopotamia and Babylonia- for the beginning of Greek enlightenment, but probably when exploration has…

— James John Courtenay

“The Hebrews were perhaps a secondary offshoot of the 'Canaanite' migration, just as the Abyssinians were a secondary offshoot of the Arabian-Sabaeans.”

— James John Courtenay

“ The Coming of the Greeks The southern part of the Italian boot is close to Greece, and several Greek cultures influenced he cultures…

— Jean F. Blashfield

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of…

— Alexis Tsipras