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Rh and only as the semi-fabulous Thrinakia to the Odyssey. Italy has no name in either Iliad or Odyssey, though in the latter it may be referred to as a distant and unknown land in the West. Turning East and South we find the Æthiopians described as the most distant of men. Egypt, unknown to the Iliad, is familiar to the Odyssey.

The Phœnicians are mentioned in the Iliad as famous workers in metal; in the Odyssey principally as pirates. The great empires of Central Asia are wholly unknown. But while Homeric thus differs from Hellenic Greece, it presents certain important differences also from the Mycenæan or Achæan Greece, especially in the use of iron and the form of arms and armour, and the