Ancient Greece and Ethiopia: More Friends than Enemies
(WorldNews Greece)

Most of us only have a hazy idea of Ethiopia, a mountainous and now land-locked nation over 2,000 miles from Greece. But Homer has many allusions to a place he calls Aethiopia. The Odyssey tells us that Poseidon travelled to visit `the Aethiopians, who are the farthest of men, some in the East and some in the West,` which we can take to mean it was considered to stretch across the Red Sea into what is now Yemen. If you know your Homer, you know that rosy-fingered Aurora, goddess of the dawn, spread her saffron robe over many a land. And you also know that in Ethiopia she did a little more, for mighty King Memnon was her son. Coming to...