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Excerpt from Ancient Greece: From the Earliest Times Down to 146 B. C From these traditions we may infer that the Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Phrygians settled in various parts of Greece. The civilization of these people was higher than that of those among whom they settled. Hence the Greeks were improved by them. From the Phoenicians they learned the use of the alphabet. But these settlers were not numer ous, and did not affect the language, customs, or religion of the Greeks to any marked extent. 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.