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HOMERIC PEIRITHOOS & BRUTUS 405

N. Britain as far as the Forth. But his greatest achievement was his conquest of the wild marauding aborigines: of Pelion mountain, a name, which may possibly, as we shall see, be an adaptation of the name of “ the rock-shotten isle of Albion,’’ to fit a well-known classic Greek name, or it may connote the older name for Alban of “ fel-inis,” though the British texts record that Brutus did actually occupy the Pindos region before coming to Alban. The Homeric record reads :-—

“ On that day when Peirithoos took vengeance of the shaggy wild folk, And thrust them forth from Pelion, and drove them to the Aithtkes (of Pindos).”’*

Tt seems remarkable here that the “ Aithikes”’’ tribe of the Pindos mountain range is suggestive of the shortened ‘‘ cht” and “ Jctis ”’ title of the Picts of the numerous Venfe places in Britain, and the Pent-land Hills in series with Pindos.

In his campaign against the shaggy wild folk, Peirithoos is assisted by Covanus Caineus,* just as Brutus was assisted by Corimeus ; and similarly Homer records that the sons of Peirithoos and Coronos Caineus, who had * jointly a fleet of forty black ships,’’ ruled conjointly over the same wild people;‘ sodid the sons of Brutus and Corineus rule conjointly in Britain. Moreover, Peirithoos engaged in battle with the king of Epirus in Northwestern Greece and was confined or the banks of the Acheron river there,*® just as Brutus, in the British account of his fighting against the King of Greece, had a battle on the bank of the ‘“‘ Akalow’’ river there, a name which is evidently intended for “‘ Acheron.” Further, it is stated that Peirithoos visited Epirus, “ marriage-hunting,”® and was married on the borders of Epirus, just as Brutus married the daughter of the Grecian King of Epirus. In one of the frescoes in the ancient Greek temples Peirithoos is painted seated on the bank of the Acheron, and next him are the beauteous daughters of King Pandureos, one of whom was the famous * Clyte,”"?7 who appears to have been the wife of Brutus, and, according to the British Chronicles, Brutus married the daughter of King “ Pandrastus.’’® Still further, Epirus and the adjoining South Macedonia, were in part inhabited by a tribe called “‘ Parth-im,’® which was presumably the remains of the ruling tribe of Barats of Brutus, or the memory of his Barat or Brit-on tribe having formerly dwelt there, and in the Parth-ini region is the town “ Bayat’’ on the Devoli river. And on the northern or Macedonia frontier of Epirus was the town of “‘ Phenice’’ on the Xanthus river, thus attesting the ancient presence of Phoenicians there. For the classic Gresk writers repeatedly state that Ancient Greece derived its letters and most of Higher Civilization from the Phoenicians. And lastly and significantly, Peivithoos suddenly disappears from ancient classic Greek history, and I can find no reference anywhere to his death oy tomb int Greece, nor of that of his kinsman Coronos Caineus. The last heard of him

1 These people are called Kentaurs, but are the historical human wild tribe and not the half-horse, half-men of the later myth-mongers subsequent to Pindar. It is noteworthy that the territory of the Cantis tribe of Kent includes the site of London according to Ptolemy (Geogr., 2, 3,12) and Brutus occupied that site and built there his capital; and the form “ Canter-bury”’ suggests a possible early form of “ Canter*’ approximating “* Kentaur.”’

* The Aithikes were a people of Epirus and Thessaly and occupied Mt. Pindos range. Strabo, 327 = 7, 7,9 and 429: 9, 5, I.

* P.D.G., 5, 10. “TL, 2, 746. * P.D.G., I, 17, *Tb., 5, 10.

*16., 10, 28-30; and Odyssey, 19, 518. His wife in the Iliad bears the title of Hippodameia or *‘ Horse-tamer,” with the epithet ‘Clytos.” I1., 2, 742.

* This historical marriage of Peirithoos to the daughter of King Pandureos, the Pandrasus of the British Chronicles,is presumably the historical source of the myth that Peirithoos tried to carry off the Queen of Hell, Persephone or Kore or Ellen (Pausanias, 3, 18). For, as Pausanias relates, Ancient Greek artists pictured the Acheron River of Etruria as the river of Hell and gave it the name of Acheron in Hades; and hence, obviously, the myth of Peirithoos punished in Hell by, ee Eee tpsbana of Persephone, Pluto, as described by Virgil and other myth-mongers.

+1 327: 7, 7, 8.

™ The origin of the later myth that he raided Hell to carry off Proserpine and was captured

by her enraged husband Pluto and condemned to infernal torture is exposed in above footnote ?.