Human Subspecies: The Ancient Greek Accounts
Several different Greek scholars, historians, and philosophers wrote about these legendary little human subspecies. In Aristotle’s
History of Animals (300 BC), he writes:
“these birds [the cranes] migrate from the steppes of
[modern Eurasia] to the marshlands south of Egypt where the Nile has its source [Ethiopia]. And it is here, by the way, that they are said to fight with the pygmies; and the story is not fabulous, but there is in reality a race of dwarfish men, and the horses are little in proportion, and the men live in caves underground.”
Lucius Flavius Philostratus (third century AD) has written a similar account:
Uniindia: Srinagar, Mar 4 (UNI) People continued to enjoy summer-like weather as the maximum temperature remained several degrees above normal on Thursday due to sunshine in the summer capital, Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir valley, where another spell of snow and rain is predicted over the weekend.