On 04/05/2004 14:44, Dean Snyder wrote:
Your other reasons are good, but this one seems dubious. The Phoenicians dominated the Mediterranean, and the Greeks got a look in only when the Phoenicians declined, surely? And the Greek never got as far as England, at least not until the Romans did. Way off topic, of course....
2 Greeks are better sailors.
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