The Greeks and the Aryan Empire

The Greek tribes, as we have told, were a branch of the Aryan-speaking stem. They had come down among the Aegean cities and islands, some centuries before 1000 BC. While the Hebrew prophets were working out a new sense of direct moral responsibility between the people and an eternal and universal god of right, the Greek philosophers were training the human mind in a new spirit of intellectual adventure. Like most of the Aryans, these Greeks had singers and reciters, whose performances were an important social link. And these handed down from the barbaric beginnings of their people, two great epics, the Iliad,. telling how a league of Greek tribes besieged and took and sacked