The Darkest Europe...

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The Darkest Europe... "..Mediterranean people feared Europe's interior, it seems that they had good reason, for its foggy woods held danger from man and beast alike. When, for example, the Persian king Xerxes invaded Greece in 480 B.C., lions attacked his baggage camels as he marched through Thrace and Macedonia. "The whole region is full of lions and wild bulls with gigantic horns, "Herodotus commented. Wolves posed an even greater threat. Today, these predators are rare in Europe and protected by law. But, in times past, they roamed the land in droves. As rectnly as 1439, the city of Paris was besieged by wolf packs that emerged from the forest en masse, seizing and devouring innocent wayfarers at the very gates of the city. In antiquity, the situation was far worse. The hills of Attika were so infested with these ravenous canines that , according to one Greek legend, marauding wolf packs once rampaged through he streets of Athens itself. Only the intervention of the god Apollo save the frightened Athenians from the grisliest of deaths. Europeans of the nineteenth century often portrayed "Darkest Africa" as a land of ferocious beasts, impassable jungles, hungry cannibals, and malevolent witch doctors. But, in ancient times, Europe itself must have seemed every bit as perilous to wayfarers from afar. In those days, the term "Darkest Europe" would not have seemed out of place to cultivated travelers from more amicable southern climes." #DarkestEurope #AegeanEvent #ScienceOfSelf

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