I2l Oiitliiies of El trope an History peasant-poet Hesiod looking with shrinking eye upon the sea. As they took possession of the more fertile districts of the peninsula, the Greek shepherds slowly began the cultivation of land. This forced them to give up a wandering life and live in ! Fig. 70. Philistine Warriors — a Cretan Tribe driven out by the greeks These men with tall, feathered headdress are depicted among the cap- tives taken by Ramses III, the last of the Egyptian emperors in the twelfth century B.C., at a time when he was desperately striving to repel an invasion of Egypt by Mediterranean peoples, who were being dis- placed by the incoming Greeks and therefore sought new homes in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt (see p. 53 and map, p. 56) permanent homes, to watch over the fields and gather the harvests. War and care of the flocks long continued to be the occupation of the fuen, who at first left the cultivation of the field to the women, a condition still found in later times in the remote valleys of inner Greece. Furthermore, flocks and herds
