[1083] That the two cultures went on for a long time side by side is evident from the different social institutions and religious ideas prevailing in different parts of Hellas during the strictly historic period.
[1084] κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἐπεπόλασε (Strabo, V. 220). This might almost be translated, "they flooded the whole of Greece."
[1085] Early Age of Greece, 1901, Chaps. I. and II.
[1086] Od. XIX.
[1087] Thuc. I. 3.
[1088] This idea of an independent evolution of western (European) culture is steadily gaining ground, and is strenuously advocated, amongst others, by M. Salomon Reinach, who has made a vigorous attack on what he calls the "oriental mirage," i.e. the delusion which sees nothing but Asiatic or Egyptian influences everywhere. Sergi of course goes further, regarding the Mediterranean (Iberian, Ligurian, Pelasgian) cultures not only as local growths, but as independent both of Asiatics and of the rude Aryan hordes, who came rather as destroyers than civilisers. This is one of the fundamental ideas pervading the whole of his Arii e Italici, and some earlier writings.
[1089] Pausanias, III. 20. 5.
[1090] G. Sergi, The Mediterranean Race, 1901. In the main he is supported by philologists. "The languages of the indigenous peoples throughout Asia Minor and the Aegean area are commonly believed to have been non-Indo-European." H. M. Chadwick, The Heroic Age, 1912, p. 179 n.
[1091] W. Ridgeway, The Early Age of Greece, 1901, p. 681 ff.
[1092] The Dawn of History, 1911, p. 40. For his views on Pelasgians, see Journ. Hell. St. 1907, p. 170, and the Art. "Pelasgians" in Ency. Brit. 1911.