Note 132 — Chapter I · HOMER—THE POSITION OF FISHERMEN

He never mentions Tyre, the later port. Evans (Scripta Minoa, pp. 56, 80) and other archæologists nowadays hold that Homer’s Φοίνικες, or “red men,” are really the “Minoans,” and are to be distinguished from the Σιδόνιοι or Phœnicians. At what date the latter appeared in the West Mediterranean is still a matter of controversy, but the present trend of opinion is that they only succeeded to the “Minoan” heritage.