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Any glorified, transfigured Homeric heroes. In a word, the heroic

spirit, as seen
in heroic poetry, is the
outcome of a society cut loose from its roots, of a time of
migrations, of the shifting
of populations.[42] But more is needed, and just this something more
the age that gave birth to Homer had. We know now that before the
northern people whom we call Greeks,
and who called themselves Hellenes, came down into Greece, there had
grown up in the basin
of the AEgean a
civilization splendid, wealthy, rich in art and already ancient, the
civilization
that has come to light at Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, and most of all in
Crete. The adventurers from North and South came upon a land rich in
spoils, where a chieftain with a band of hardy followers might sack a
city and dower himself and
his men with sudden wealth. Such conditions, such a contact of new
and old, of settled splendour beset by unbridled adventure, go to the
making