Hellenic northeast africa

[Midas]

It occurred to me that if there was any Somali language wiring discovered what would be the source of literature they modeled themselves after ? Then I remembered that both the ezana stone and the periplus of the Erythrean Sea show us that there was a decent Greek presence in Northerast africa. For at least 300 years continously. Since the periplus and the ezana stone are seperated in time by around 300 years. Even the aksumite coniage had greek writings on it . This must have had a huge influence

Imagine plato and aristole translated into af somali.

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[cunug3aad]

"wax keli oo xikma xaq ah waa wax oo adi aqaan karo ma jirto"
"JECEL WAA XANUUN MASKAX KHATAR"
Khutbaat written for generations to come

 

[Shimbiris]

They've found things like ancient Greek theatre masks all the way in Bari burials and we know our ancestors made very regular contact with them.

Then it's remarkable how Zoskales who seems a sort of Classical predecessor to the Medieval Medri Bahri-:

Medri Bahri - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

-was described as not just a Greek speaker but also a reader of Greek philosophy and this is in a time period before the Christianisation of Northern Eritrea and Ethiopia.

I think Hellenic culture definitely had an influence on our ancestors. It was pretty much all the rage everywhere after Alexander's conquests.

 

[Midas]

They've found things like ancient Greek theatre masks all the way in Bari burials and we know our ancestors made very regular contact with them.

Then it's remarkable how Zoskales who seems a sort of Classical predecessor to the Medieval Medri Bahri-:

Medri Bahri - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

-was described as not just a Greek speaker but also a reader of Greek philosophy and this is in a time period before the Christianisation of Northern Eritrea and Ethiopia.

I think Hellenic culture definitely had an influence on our ancestors. It was pretty much all the rage everywhere after Alexander's conquests.

Wow they found greek masks ? I didn't think the influence was so pervasive that it even affected our burial traditions.

I guess it does make sense. Since human shaped sculptures like the ones that have been discovered all decsend from Greek art . Like all the other human shaped statues. I honestly don't think there's anything else we can discover that I'd be surprised

Imagine schools in somalia in 20 years. They're probably gonna have several textbooks devoted to learning about preislamic somali civilization.

 

[Shimbiris]

Wow they found greek masks ? I didn't think the influence was so pervasive that it even affected our burial traditions.

I guess it does make sense. Since human shaped sculptures like the ones that have been discovered all decsend from Greek art . Like all the other human shaped statues. I honestly don't think there's anything else we can discover that I'd be surprised

Imagine schools in somalia in 20 years. They're probably gonna have several textbooks devoted to learning about preislamic somali civilization.

Yes a little girl in the northeast was buried with a Greek theatre mask. Was posted about on this forum, actually but I lost the thread:

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

Little girl was buried with Roman goods too like a jug, from what I recall.