his death, _An. Nabonass._ 209, _An._ 2, Olymp. 60: and he took _Sardes_ a
little before, namely _An._ 1, Olymp. 59, as _Scaliger_ collects from
_Sosicrates_: _Crœsus_ was then King of _Sardes_, and Reigned fourteen
years, and therefore began to Reign _An._ 3, Olymp. 55. After _Solon_ had
made laws for the _Athenians_, he obliged them upon oath to observe those
laws 'till he returned from his travels; and then travelled ten years,
going to _Egypt_ and _Cyprus_, and visiting _Thales_ of _Miletus_: and upon
His Return to _Athens_, _Pisistratus_ began to affect the Tyranny of that
city, which made _Solon_ travel a second time; and now he was invited by
_Crœsus_ to _Sardes_; and _Crœsus_, before _Solon_ visited him, had subdued
all _Asia Minor_, as far as to the River _Halys_; and therefore he received
that visit towards the latter part of his Reign; and we may place it upon
the ninth year thereof, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57: and the legislature of _Solon_
twelve years earlier, _An._ 3, Olymp. 54: and that of _Draco_ still ten
years earlier, _An._ 1, Olymp. 52. After _Solon_ had visited _Crœsus_, he
went into _Cilicia_ and some other places, and died [130] in his travels:
and this was in the second year of the Tyranny of _Pisistratus_. _Comias_
was Archon when _Solon_ returned from his first travels to _Athens_; and
the next year _Hegestratus_ was Archon, and _Solon_ died before the end of
the year, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57, as above: and by this reckoning the objection
of _Plutarch_ above mentioned is removed.
We have now shewed that the _Phœnicians_ of _Zidon_, under the conduct of
_Cadmus_ and other captains, flying from their enemies, came into _Greece_,
with letters and other arts, about the sixteenth year of King _David_'s
Reign; that _Europa_ the sister of _Cadmus_, fled some days before him from
_Zidon_ and came to _Crete_, and there became the mother of _Minos_, about
the 18th or 20th year of _David_'s Reign; that _Sesostris_ and the great
_Bacchus_, and by consequence also _Osiris_, were one and the same King of
_Egypt_ with _Sesac_, and came out of _Egypt_ in the fifth year of
_Rehoboam_ to invade the nations, and died 25 years after _Solomon_; that
the _Argonautic_ expedition was about 43 years after the death of
_Solomon_; that _Troy_ was taken about 76 or 78 years after the death of
_Solomon_; that the _Phœnicians_ of _Tyre_ were driven from the _Red Sea_
by the _Edomites_, about 87 years after the death of _Solomon_, and within
two or three years began to make long voyages upon the _Mediterranean_,
sailing to _Spain_, and beyond, under a commander whom for his industry,
conduct, and discoveries, they honoured with the names of _Melcartus_ and
_Hercules_; that the return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_ was
about 158 years after the death of _Solomon_; that _Lycurgus_ the
Legislator Reigned at _Sparta_, and gave the three Discs to the Olympic
treasury, _An._ 1, Olymp. 18, or 273 years after the death of _Solomon_,
the _Quinquertium_ being at that time added to the Olympic Games; that the
_Greeks_ began soon after to build _Triremes_, and to send Colonies into
_Sicily_ and _Italy_, which gave the name of _Græcia magna_ to those
countries; that the first _Messenian_ war ended about 350 years after the
death of _Solomon_, _An._ 1, Olymp. 37; that _Phidon_ was contemporary to
_Solon_, and presided in the Olympic Games in the 49th Olympiad, that is,
397 years after the death of _Solomon_; that _Draco_ was Archon, and made
his laws, _An._ 1, Olymp. 52; and _Solon_, _An._ 3, Olymp. 54; and that
_Solon_ visited _Crœsus_ _Ann._ 3, Olymp. 57, or 433 years after the death
of _Solomon_; and _Sardes_ was taken by _Cyrus_ 438 years, and _Babylon_ by
_Cyrus_ 443 years, and _Echatane_ by _Cyrus_ 445 years after the death of
_Solomon_: and these periods being settled, they become a foundation for
building the Chronology of the antient times upon them; and nothing more
remains for settling such a Chronology, than to make these Periods a little
exacter, if it can be, and to shew how the rest of the Antiquities of
_Greece_, _Egypt_, _Assyria_, _Chaldæa_, and _Media_ may suit therewith.
Whilst _Bacchus_ made his expedition into _India_, _Theseus_ left _Ariadne_
in the Island _Naxus_ or _Dia_, as above, and succeeded his father _Ægeus_
at _Athens_; and upon the Return of _Bacchus_ from _India_, _Ariadne_
became his mistress, and accompanied him in his triumphs; and this was
about ten years after the death of _Solomon_: and from that time reigned
eight Kings in _Athens_, viz. _Theseus_, _Menestheus_, _Demophoon_,
_Oxyntes_, _Aphidas_, _Thymætes_, _Melanthus_, and _Codrus_; these Kings,
at 19 years a-piece one with another, might take up about 152 years, and
end about 44 years before the Olympiads: then Reigned twelve Archons for
life, which at 14 or 15 years a-piece, the State being unstable, might take
up about 174 years, and end _An._ 2, Olymp. 33: then reigned seven
decennial Archons, which are usually reckoned at seventy years; but some of
them dying in their Regency, they might not take up above forty years, and
so end about _An._ 2, Olymp. 43, about which time began the Second
_Messenian_ war: these decennial Archons were followed by the annual
Archons, amongst whom were the Legislators _Draco_ and _Solon_. Soon after
the death of _Codrus_, his second Son _Neleus_, not bearing the Reign of
his lame brother _Medon_ at _Athens_, retired into _Asia_, and was followed
by his younger brothers _Androcles_ and _Cyaretus_, and many others: these
had the name of _Ionians_, from _Ion_ the son of _Xuthus_, who commanded
the army of the _Athenians_ at the death of _Erechtheus_, and gave the name
of _Ionia_ to the country which they invaded: and about 20 or 25 years
after the death of _Codrus_, these new Colonies, being now Lords of
_Ionia_, set up over themselves a common Council called _Panionium_, and
composed of Counsellors sent from twelve of their cities, _Miletus_,
_Myus_, _Priene_, _Ephesus_, _Colophon_, _Lebedus_, _Teos_, _Clazomenæ_,
_Phocæa_, _Samos_, _Chios_, and _Erythræa_: and this was the _Ionic_
Migration.
[131] When the _Greeks_ and _Latines_ were forming their Technical
Chronology, there were great disputes about the Antiquity of _Rome_: the
_Greeks_ made it much older than the Olympiads: some of them said it was
built by _Æneas_; others, by _Romus_, the son or grandson of _Æneas_;
others, by _Romus_, the son or grandson of _Latinus_ King of the
_Aborigines_; others, by _Romus_ the son of _Ulysses_, or of _Ascanius_, or
of _Italus_: and some of the _Latines_ at first fell in with the opinion of
the _Greeks_, saying that it was built by _Romulus_, the son or grandson of
_Æneas_. _Timæus Siculus_ represented it built by _Romulus_, the grandson
of _Æneas_, above an hundred years before the Olympiads; and so did
_Nævius_ the Poet, who was twenty years older than _Ennius_, and served in
the first _Punic_ war, and wrote the history of that war. Hitherto nothing
certain was agreed upon, but about 140 or 150 years after the death of
_Alexander the Great_, they began to say that _Rome_ was built a second
time by _Romulus_, in the fifteenth Age after the destruction of _Troy_: by
Ages they meant Reigns of the Kings of the _Latines_ at _Alba_, and
reckoned the first fourteen Reigns at about 432 years, and the following
Reigns of the seven Kings of _Rome_ at 244 years, both which numbers made
up the time of about 676 years from the taking of _Troy_, according to
these Chronologers; but are much too long for the course of nature: and by
this reckoning they placed the building of _Rome_ upon the sixth or seventh
Olympiad; _Varro_ placed it on the first year of the Seventh Olympiad, and
was therein generally followed by the _Romans_; but this can scarce be
reconciled to the course of nature: for I do not meet with any instance in
all history, since Chronology was certain, wherein seven Kings, most of
whom were slain, Reigned 244 years in continual Succession. The fourteen
Reigns of the Kings of the _Latines_, at twenty years a-piece one with
another, amount unto 280 years, and these years counted from the taking of
_Troy_ end in the 38th Olympiad: and the Seven Reigns of the Kings of
_Rome_, four or five of them being slain and one deposed, may at a moderate
reckoning amount to fifteen or sixteen years a-piece one with another: let
them be reckoned at seventeen years a-piece, and they will amount unto 119
years; which being counted backwards from the Regifuge, end also in the
38th Olympiad: and by these two reckonings _Rome_ was built in the 38th
Olympiad, or thereabout. The 280 years and the 119 years together make up
399 years; and the same number of years arises by counting the twenty and
one Reigns at nineteen years a-piece: and this being the whole time between
the taking of _Troy_ and the Regifuge, let these years be counted backward
from the Regifuge, _An._ 1, Olymp. 68, and they will place the taking of
_Troy_ about 74 years after the death of _Solomon_.
When _Sesostris_ returned from _Thrace_ into _Egypt_, he left _Æetes_ with
part of his army in _Colchis_, to guard that pass; and _Phryxus_ and his
sister _Helle_ fled from _Ino_, the daughter of _Cadmus_, to _Æetes_ soon
after, in a ship whose ensign was a golden ram: _Ino_ was therefore alive
in the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_, the year in which _Sesostris_
returned into _Egypt_; and by consequence her father _Cadmus_ flourished in
the Reign of _David_, and not before. _Cadmus_ was the father of
_Polydorus_, the father of _Labdacus_, the father of _Laius_, the father of
_Oedipus_, the father of _Eteocles_ and _Polynices_ who slew one another in
their youth, in the war of the seven Captains at _Thebes_, about ten or
twelve years after the _Argonautic_ Expedition: and _Thersander_, the son
of _Polynices_, warred at _Troy_. These Generations being by the eldest
sons who married young, if they be reckoned at about twenty and four years
to a Generation, will place the birth of _Polydorus_ upon the 18th year of
_David_'s Reign, or thereabout: and thus _Cadmus_ might be a young man, not
yet married, when he came first into _Greece_. At his first coming he
sail'd to _Rhodes_, and thence to _Samothrace_, an Island near _Thrace_ on
the north side of _Lemnos_, and there married _Harmonia_, the sister of
_Jasius_ and _Dardanus_, which gave occasion to the _Samothracian_
mysteries: and _Polydorus_ might be their son, born a year or two after
their coming; and his sister _Europa_ might be then a young woman, in the
flower of her age. These Generations cannot well be shorter; and therefore
_Cadmus_, and his son _Polydorus_, were not younger than we have reckoned
them: nor can they be much longer, without making _Polydorus_ too old to be
born in _Europe_, and to be the son of _Harmonia_ the sister of _Jasius_.
_Labdacus_ was therefore born in the end of _David_'s Reign, _Laius_ in the
24th year of _Solomon_'s, and _Oedipus_ in the seventh of _Rehoboam_'s, or
thereabout: unless you had rather say, that _Polydorus_ was born at
_Zidon_, before his father came into _Europe_; but his name _Polydorus_ is
in the language of _Greece_.
_Polydorus_ married _Nycteis_, the daughter of _Nycteus_ a native of
_Greece_, and dying young, left his Kingdom and young son _Labdacus_ under
the administration of _Nycteus_. Then _Epopeus_ King of _Ægialus_,
afterwards called _Sicyon_, stole _Antiope_ the daughter of _Nycteus_,
[132] and _Nycteus_ thereupon made war upon him, and in a battle wherein
_Nycteus_ overcame, both were wounded and died soon after. _Nycteus_ left
the tuition of _Labdacus_, and administration of the Kingdom, to his
brother _Lycus_; and _Epopeus_ or, as _Hyginus_ [133] calls him, _Epaphus_
the _Sicyonian_, left his Kingdom to _Lamedon_, who presently ended the
war, by sending home _Antiope_: and she, in returning home, brought forth
_Amphion_ and _Zethus_. _Labdacus_ being grown up received the Kingdom from
_Lycus_, and soon after dying left it again to his administration, for his
young son _Laius_. When _Amphion_ and _Zethus_ were about twenty years old,
at the instigation of their mother _Antiope_, they killed _Lycus_, and made
_Laius_ flee to _Pelops_, and seized the city _Thebes_, and compassed it
with a wall; and _Amphion_ married _Niobe_ the sister of _Pelops_, and by
her had several children, amongst whom was _Chloris_, the mother of
_Periclymenus_ the _Argonaut_. _Pelops_ was the father of _Plisthenes_,
_Atreus_, and _Thyestes_; and _Agamemnon_ and _Menelaus_, the adopted sons
of _Atreus_, warred at _Troy_. _Ægisthus_, the son of _Thyestes_, slew
_Agamemnon_ the year after the taking of _Troy_; and _Atreus_ died just
before _Paris_ stole _Helena_, which, according to [134] _Homer_, was
twenty years before the taking of _Troy_. _Deucalion_ the son of _Minos_,
[135] was an _Argonaut_; and _Talus_ another son of _Minos_, was slain by
the _Argonauts_; and _Idomeneus_ and _Meriones_ the grandsons of _Minos_
were at the _Trojan_ war. All these things confirm the ages of _Cadmus_ and
_Europa_, and their posterity, above assigned, and place the death of
_Epopeus_ or _Epaphus_ King of _Sicyon_, and birth of _Amphion_ and
_Zethus_, upon the tenth year of _Solomon_; and the taking of _Thebes_ by
_Amphion_ and _Zethus_, and the flight of _Laius_ to _Pelops_, upon the
thirtieth year of that King, or thereabout. _Amphion_ might marry the
sister of _Pelops_, the same year, and _Pelops_ come into _Greece_ three or
four years before that flight, or about the 26th year of _Solomon_.
[Sidenode p: Hygin. Fab. 14.]
In the days of _Erechtheus_ King of _Athens_, and _Celeus_ King of
_Eleusis_, _Ceres_ came into _Attica_; and educated _Triptolemus_ the son
of _Celeus_, and taught him to sow corn. She [136] lay with _Jasion_, or
_Jasius_, the brother of _Harmonia_ the wife of _Cadmus_; and presently
after her death _Erechtheus_ was slain, in a war between the _Athenians_
and _Eleusinians_; and, for the benefaction of bringing tillage into
_Greece_, the _Eleusinia Sacra_ were instituted to her [137] with
_Egyptian_ ceremonies, by _Celeus_ and _Eumolpus_; and a Sepulchre or
Temple was erected to her in _Eleusine_, and in this Temple the families of
_Celeus_ and _Eumolpus_ became her Priests: and this Temple, and that which
_Eurydice_ erected to her daughter _Danae_, by the name of _Juno Argiva_,
are the first instances that I meet with in _Greece_ of Deifying the dead,
with Temples, and Sacred Rites, and Sacrifices, and Initiations, and a
succession of Priests to perform them. Now by this history it is manifest
that _Erechtheus_, _Celeus_, _Eumolpus_, _Ceres_, _Jasius_, _Cadmus_,
_Harmonia_, _Asterius_, and _Dardanus_ the brother of _Jasius_, and one of
the founders of the Kingdom of _Troy_, were all contemporary to one
another, and flourished in their youth, when _Cadmus_ came first into
_Europe_. _Erechtheus_ could not be much older, because his daughter
_Procris_ convers'd with _Minos_ King of _Crete_; and his grandson
_Thespis_ had fifty daughters, who lay with _Hercules_; and his daughter
_Orithyia_ was the mother of _Calais_ and _Zetes_, two of the _Argonauts_
in their youth; and his son _Orneus_ [138] was the father of _Peteos_ the
father of _Menestheus_, who warred at _Troy_: nor much younger, because his
second son _Pandion_, who with the _Metionides_ deposed his elder brother
_Cecrops_, was the father of _Ægeus_, the father of _Theseus_; and
_Metion_, another of his sons, was the father of _Eupalamus_, the father of
_Dædalus_, who was older than _Theseus_; and his daughter _Creusa_ married
_Xuthus_, the son of _Hellen_, and by him had two sons, _Achæus_ and _Ion_;
and _Ion_ commanded the army of the _Athenians_ against the _Eleusinians_,
in the battle in which his grandfather _Erechtheus_ was slain: and this was
just before the institution of the _Eleusinia Sacra_, and before the Reign
of _Pandion_ the father of _Ægeus_. _Erechtheus_ being an _Egyptian_
procured corn from _Egypt_, and for that benefaction was made King of
_Athens_; and near the beginning of his Reign _Ceres_ came into _Attica_
from _Sicily_, in quest of her daughter _Proserpina_. We cannot err much if
we make _Hellen_ contemporary to the Reign of _Saul_, and to that of
_David_ at _Hebron_; and place the beginning of the Reign of _Erechtheus_
in the 25th year, the coming of _Ceres_ into _Attica_ in the 30th year, and
the dispersion of corn by _Triptolemus_ about the 40th year of _David_'s
Reign; and the death of _Ceres_ and _Erechtheus_, and institution of the
_Eleusinia Sacra_, between the tenth and fifteenth year of _Solomon_.
_Teucer_, _Dardanus_, _Erichthonius_, _Tros_, _Ilus_, _Laomedon_, and
_Priamus_ Reigned successively at _Troy_; and their Reigns, at about twenty
years a-piece one with another, amount unto an hundred and forty years:
which counted back from the taking of _Troy_, place the beginning of the
Reign of _Teucer_ about the fifteenth year of the Reign of King _David_;
and that of _Dardanus_, in the days of _Ceres_, who lay with _Jasius_ the
brother of _Dardanus_: whereas Chronologers reckon that the six last of
these Kings Reigned 296 years, which is after the rate of 49⅓ years a-piece
one with another; and that they began their Reign in the days of _Moses_.
_Dardanus_ married the daughter of _Teucer_, the Son of _Scamander_, and
succeeded him: whence _Teucer_ was of about the same age with _David_.
Upon the return of _Sesostris_ into _Egypt_, his brother _Danaus_ not only
attempted his life, as above, but also commanded his daughters, who were
fifty in number and had married the sons of _Sesostris_, to slay their
husbands; and then fled with his daughters from _Egypt_, in a long ship of
fifty oars. This Flight was in the fourteenth year of _Rehoboam_. _Danaus_
came first to _Lindus_, a town in _Rhodes_, and there built a Temple, and
erected a Statue to _Minerva_, and lost three of his daughters by a plague
which raged there; and then sailed thence with the rest of his daughters to
_Argos_. He came to _Argos_ therefore in the fifteenth or sixteenth year of
_Rehoboam_: and at length contending there with _Gelanor_ the brother of
_Eurystheus_ for the crown of _Argos_, was chosen by the people, and
Reigned at _Argos_, while _Eurystheus_ Reigned at _Mycenæ_; and
_Eurystheus_ was born [139] the same year with _Hercules_. _Gelanor_ and
_Eurystheus_ were the sons of _Sthenelus_, by _Nicippe_ the daughter of
_Pelops_; and _Sthenelus_ was the son of _Perseus_, and Reigned at _Argos_,
and _Danaus_, who succeeded him at _Argos_, was succeeded there by his son
in law _Lynceus_, and he by his son _Abas_; that _Abas_ who is commonly,
but erroneously, reputed the father of _Acrisius_ and _Prætus_. In the time
of the _Argonautic_ expedition _Castor_ and _Pollux_ were beardless young
men, and their sisters _Helena_ and _Clytemnestra_ were children, and their
wives _Phœbe_ and _Ilaira_ were also very young: all these, with the
_Argonauts_ _Lynceus_ and _Idas_, were the grandchildren of _Gorgophone_,
the daughter of _Perseus_, the son of _Danae_, the daughter of _Acrisius_
and _Eurydice_; and _Perieres_ and _Oebalus_, the husbands of _Gorgophone_,
were the sons of _Cynortes_, the son of _Amyclas_, the brother of
_Eurydice_. _Mestor_ or _Mastor_, the brother of _Sthenelus_, married
_Lysidice_, another of the daughters of _Pelops_: and _Pelops_ married
_Hippodamia_, the daughter of _Evarete_, the daughter of _Acrisius_.
_Alcmena_, the mother of _Hercules_, was the daughter of _Electryo_; and
_Sthenelus_, _Mestor_ and _Electryo_ were brothers of _Gorgophone_, and
sons of _Perseus_ and _Andromeda_: and the _Argonaut_ _Æsculapius_ was the
grandson of _Leucippus_ and _Phlegia_, and _Leucippus_ was the son of
_Perieres_, the grandson of _Amyclas_ the brother of _Eurydice_, and
_Amyclas_ and _Eurydice_ were the children of _Lacedæmon_ and _Sparta_: and
_Capaneus_, one of the seven Captains against _Thebes_, was the husband of
_Euadne_ the daughter of _Iphis_, the son of _Elector_, the son of
_Anaxagoras_, the son of _Megapenthes_, the son of _Prætus_ the brother of
_Acrisius_. Now from these Generations it may be gathered that _Perseus_,
_Perieres_ and _Anaxagoras_ were of about the same age with _Minos_,
_Pelops_, _Ægeus_ and _Sesac_; and that _Acrisius_, _Prætus_, _Eurydice_,
and _Amyclas_, being two little Generations older, were of about the same
age with King _David_ and _Erechtheus_; and that the Temple of _Juno
Argiva_ was built about the same time with the Temple of _Solomon_; the
same being built by _Eurydice_ to her daughter _Danae_, as above; or as
some say, by _Pirasus_ or _Piranthus_, the son or successor of _Argus_, and
great grandson of _Phoroneus_: for the first Priestess of that Goddess was
_Callithea_ the daughter of _Piranthus_; _Callithea_ was succeeded by
_Alcinoe_, about three Generations before the taking of _Troy_, that is
about the middle of _Solomon_'s Reign: in her Priesthood the _Siculi_
passed out of _Italy_ into _Sicily_: afterwards _Hypermnestra_ the daughter
of _Danaus_ became Priestess of this Goddess, and she flourished in the
times next before the _Argonautic_ expedition: and _Admeta_, the daughter
of _Eurystheus_, was Priestess of this _Juno_ about the times of the
_Trojan_ war. _Andromeda_ the wife of _Perseus_, was the daughter of
_Cepheus_ an _Egyptian_, the son of _Belus_, according to [140]
_Herodotus_; and the _Egyptian_ _Belus_ was _Ammon_: _Perseus_ took her
from _Joppa_, where _Cepheus_, I think a kinsman of _Solomon_'s Queen,
resided in the days of _Solomon_. _Acrisius_ and _Prætus_ were the sons of
_Abas_: but this _Abas_ was not the same man with _Abas_ the grandson of
_Danaus_, but a much older Prince, who built _Abæa_ in _Phocis_, and might
be the Prince from whom the island _Eubœa_ [141] was anciently called
_Abantis_, and the people thereof _Abantes_: for _Apollonius Rhodius_ [142]
tells us, that the _Argonaut_ _Canthus_ was the son of _Canethus_, and that
_Canethus_ was of the posterity of _Abas_; and the Commentator upon
_Apollonius_ tells us further, that from this _Abas_ the inhabitants of
_Eubœa_ were anciently called _Abantes_. This _Abas_ therefore flourished
three or four Generations before the _Argonautic_ expedition, and so might
be the father of _Acrisius_: the ancestors of _Acrisius_ were accounted
_Egyptians_ by the _Greeks_, and they might come from _Egypt_ under _Abas_
into _Eubœa_, and from thence into _Peloponnesus_. I do not reckon
_Phorbas_ and his son _Triopas_ among the Kings of _Argos_, because they
fled from that Kingdom to the Island _Rhodes_; nor do I reckon _Crotopus_
among them, because because he went from _Argos_, and built a new city for
himself in _Megaris_, as [143] _Conon_ relates.
We said that _Pelops_ came into _Greece_ about the 26th year of _Solomon_:
he [144] came thither in the days of _Acrisius_, and in those of
_Endymion_, and of his sons, and took _Ætolia_ from _Aetolus_. _Endymion_
was the son of _Aëthlius_, the son of _Protogenia_, the sister of _Hellen_,
and daughter of _Deucalion_: _Phrixus_ and _Helle_, the children of
_Athamus_, the brother of _Sisyphus_ and Son of _Æolus_, the son of
_Hellen_, fled from their stepmother _Ino_, the daughter of _Cadmus_, to
_Æetes_ in _Colchis_, presently after the return of _Sesostris_ into
_Egypt_: and _Jason_ the _Argonaut_ was the son of _Æson_, the son of
_Cretheus_, the son of _Æolus_, the son of _Hellen_: and _Calyce_ was the
wife of _Aëthlius_, and mother of _Endymion_, and daughter of _Æolus_, and
sister of _Cretheus_, _Sisyphus_ and _Athamas_: and by these circumstances
_Cretheus_, _Sisyphus_ and _Athamas_ flourished in the latter part of the
Reign of _Solomon_, and in the Reign of _Rehoboam_: _Aëthlius_, _Æolus_,
_Xuthus_, _Dorus_, _Tantalus_, and _Danae_ were contemporary to
_Erechtheus_, _Jasius_ and _Cadmus_; and _Hellen_ was about one, and
_Deucalion_ about two Generations older than _Erechtheus_. They could not
be much older, because _Xuthus_ the youngest son of _Hellen_ [145] married
_Creusa_ the daughter of _Erechtheus_; nor could they be much younger,
because _Cephalus_ the son of _Deioneus_, the son of _Æolus_, the eldest
son of _Hellen_, [146] married _Procris_ the daughter of _Erechtheus_; and
_Procris_ fled from her husband to _Minos_. Upon the death of _Hellen_, his
youngest son _Xuthus_ [147] was expelled _Thessaly_ by his brothers _Æolus_
and _Dorus_, and fled to _Erechtheus_, and married _Creusa_ the daughter of
_Erechtheus_; by whom he had two sons, _Achæus_ and _Ion_, the youngest of
which grew up before the death of _Erechtheus_, and commanded the army of
the _Athenians_, in the war in which _Erechtheus_ was slain: and therefore
_Hellen_ died about one Generation before _Erechtheus_.