The Ionians come up on my pages as one of the peoples Genesis traces back to Japheth, which is how Ignatius Donnelly draws them into his Atlantis argument. These are the pages where they appear.
Japheth’s descendants
On The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis I quote Donnelly:
According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians.
Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
He adds that these are all now recognised as Aryans, except the Iberians, and the same passage appears on The Aryan and Japhetic Colonies and on Atlanteans set sail for Egypt but ended up in the Pyrenees.
Javan and Hellen
On Genesis 10 – Noah’s offspring I link Javan, son of Japheth, to the Ionians and Greeks. Greek tradition gives them a different ancestor: on Ovid’s Four Ages the story runs through Deucalion’s son Hellen, who fathers Dorus, Xuthus and Aeolus, the eponymous ancestors of the Dorians, Ionians and Aeolians.
Before the Ionian period
On The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks Donnelly quotes Baldwin’s Prehistoric Nations, who argues that before Phoenician influence declined in Greece and around the Aegean, its people knew the Atlantic regions of Western Europe much better than they did in the Ionian or Hellenic period.
Related pages
- The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis
- The Aryan and Japhetic Colonies
- Atlanteans set sail for Egypt but ended up in the Pyrenees
- Genesis 10 – Noah’s offspring
- Ovid’s Four Ages
- The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
For every page I tagged with Ionians, see the Ionians tag archive.
