'That is a charming poet of yours, though I know little of him, for in Crete foreign poets are not much read.' 'But he is well known in Sparta, though he describes Ionian rather than Dorian manners, and he seems to take your view of primitive society.' May we not suppose that government arose out of the union of single families who survived the destruction, and were under the rule of patriarchs, because they had originally descended from a single father and mother?
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.
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.
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.
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.
For every page I tagged with Ionians, see the Ionians tag archive.
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.
The narrative extends through Deucalion’s son Hellen, who fathers Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, eponymous ancestors of the Greek tribes (Dorians, Ionians, Aeolians).
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.
Europe than prevailed there during the Ionian or Hellenic period."
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.
Javan is the usual Hebrew name for the Ionians.
Genesis mentions that the descendants of Japheth include the Ionians, Moreans, Cilicians, Cyprians, Dodoneans of Macedonia, Iberians, and Thracians, all of which are recognized as Aryans, except the Iberians.