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 488 ' Pri.[itivic Guekck: Mvcknian Akt. Iliad was no more than a tissue of fables and of solar myths, who would have received with contemptuous disdain the notion that it might be well to look upon the myths concerned with lo, Danaiis, and Cecrops as probable reminiscences of relations which once had existed between Peloponnesus and the Nile valley.