_Solomon_, or the beginning of the Reign of _Rehoboam_. Upon the flight of
_Phrixus_ and _Helle_, their father _Athamas_, a little King in _Bœotia_,
went distracted and slew his son _Learchus_; and his wife _Ino_ threw her
self into the sea, together with her other son _Melicertus_; and thereupon
_Sisyphus_ instituted the _Isthmia_ at _Corinth_ to his nephew
_Melicertus_. This was presently after _Sesostris_ had left _Æetes_ in
_Colchis_, I think in the fifteenth or sixteenth year of _Rehoboam_: so
that _Athamas_, the son of _Æolus_ and grandson of _Hellen_, and _Ino_ the
daughter of _Cadmus_, flourished 'till about the sixteenth year of
_Rehoboam_. _Sisyphus_ and his successors _Ornytion_, _Thoas_, _Demophon_,
_Propodas_, _Doridas_, and _Hyanthidas_ Reigned successively at _Corinth_,
'till the return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_: then Reigned the
_Heraclides_, _Aletes_, _Ixion_, _Agelas_, _Prumnis_, _Bacchis_, _Agelas
II_, _Eudamus_, _Aristodemus_, and _Telestes_ successively about 170 years,
and then _Corinth_ was governed by _Prytanes_ or annual Archons about 42
years, and after them by _Cypselus_ and _Periander_ about 48 years more.
_Celeus_ King of _Eleusis_, who was contemporary to _Erechtheus_, [148] was
the son of _Rharus_, the son of _Cranaus_, the successor of _Cecrops_; and
in the Reign of _Cranaus_, _Deucalion_ fled with his sons _Hellen_ and
_Amphictyon_ from the flood which then overflowed _Thessaly_, and was
called _Deucalion_'s flood: they fled into _Attica_, and there _Deucalion_
died soon after; and _Pausanias_ tells us that his Sepulchre was to be seen
near _Athens_. His eldest son _Hellen_ succeeded him in _Thessaly_, and his
other son _Amphictyon_ married the daughter of _Cranaus_, and Reigning at
_Thermopylæ_, erected there the _Amphictyonic_ Council; and _Acrisius_ soon
after erected the like Council at _Delphi_. This I conceive was done when
_Amphictyon_ and _Acrisius_ were aged, and fit to be Counsellors; suppose
in the latter half of the Reign of _David_, and beginning of the Reign of
_Solomon_; and soon after, suppose about the middle of the Reign of
_Solomon_, did _Phemonoë_ become the first Priestess of _Apollo_ at
_Delphi_, and gave Oracles in hexameter verse: and then was _Acrisius_
slain accidentally by his grandson _Perseus_. The Council of _Thermopylæ_
included twelve nations of the _Greeks_, without _Attica_, and therefore
_Amphictyon_ did not then Reign at _Athens_: he might endeavour to succeed
_Cranaus_, his wife's father, and be prevented by _Erechtheus_.
Between the Reigns of _Cranaus_ and _Erechtheus_, Chronologers place also
_Erichthonius_, and his son _Pandion_; but I take this _Erichthonius_ and
this his son _Pandion_, to be the same with _Erechtheus_ and his son and
successor _Pandion_, the names being only repeated with a little variation
in the list of the Kings of _Attica_: for _Erichthonius_, he that was the
son of the Earth, nursed up by _Minerva_, is by _Homer_ called
_Erechtheus_; and _Themistius_ [149] tells us, that it was _Erechtheus_
that first joyned a chariot to horses; and _Plato_ [150] alluding to the
story of _Erichthonius_ in a basket, saith, _The people of magnanimous
_Erechtheus_ is beautiful, but it behoves us to behold him taken out_:
_Erechtheus_ therefore immediately succeeded _Cranaus_, while _Amphictyon_
Reigned at _Thermopylæ_. In the Reign of _Cranaus_ the Poets place the
flood of _Deucalion_, and therefore the death of _Deucalion_, and the Reign
of his sons _Hellen_ and _Amphictyon_, in _Thessaly_ and _Thermpolyæ_, was
but a few years, suppose eight or ten, before the Reign of _Erechtheus_.
The first Kings of _Arcadia_ were successively _Pelasgus_, _Lycaon_,
_Nyctimus_, _Arcas_, _Clitor_, _Æpytus_, _Aleus_, _Lycurgus_, _Echemus_,
_Agapenor_, _Hippothous_, _Æpytus_ II, _Cypselus_, _Olæas_, &c. Under
_Cypselus_ the _Heraclides_ returned into _Peloponnesus_, as above:
_Agapenor_ was one of those who courted _Helena_; he courted her before he
reigned, and afterwards he went to the war at _Troy_, and thence to
_Cyprus_, and there built _Paphos_. _Echemus_ slew _Hyllus_ the son of
_Hercules._ _Lycurgus_, _Cepheus_, and _Auge_, were [151] the children of
_Aleus_, the son of _Aphidas_, the son of _Arcas_, the son of _Callisto_,
the daughter of _Lycaon_: _Auge_ lay with _Hercules_, and _Ancæus_ the son
of _Lycurgus_ was an _Argonaut_, and his uncle _Cepheus_ was his Governour
in that Expedition; and _Lycurgus_ stay'd at home, to look after his aged
father _Aleus_, who might be born about 75 years before that Expedition;
and his grandfather _Arcas_ might be born about the end of the Reign of
_Saul_, and _Lycaon_ the grandfather of _Arcas_ might be then alive, and
dye before the middle of _David_'s Reign; and His youngest son _Oenotrus_,
the _Janus_ of the _Latines_, might grow up, and lead a colony into _Italy_
before the Reign of _Solomon_. _Arcas_ received [152] bread-corn from
_Triptolemus_, and taught his people to make bread of it; and so did
_Eumelus_, the first King of a region afterwards called _Achaia_: and
therefore _Arcas_ and _Eumelus_ were contemporary to _Triptolemus_, and to
his old father _Celeus_, and to _Erechtheus_ King of _Athens_; and
_Callisto_ to _Rharus_, and her father _Lycaon_ to _Cranaus_: but _Lycaon_
died before _Cranaus_, so as to leave room for _Deucalion_'s flood between
their deaths. The eleven Kings of _Arcadia_, between this Flood and the
Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_, that is, between the Reigns
of _Lycaon_ and _Cypselus_, after the rate of about twenty years to a Reign
one with another, took up about 220 years; and these years counted back
from the Return of the _Heraclides_, place the Flood of _Deucalion_ upon
the fourteenth year of _David_'s Reign, or thereabout.
_Herodotus_ [153] tells us, that the _Phœnicians_ who came with _Cadmus_
brought many doctrines into _Greece_: for amongst those _Phœnicians_ were a
sort of men called _Curetes_, who were skilled in the Arts and Sciences of
_Phœnicia_, above other men, and [154] settled some in _Phrygia_, where
they were called _Corybantes_; some in _Crete_, where they were called
_Idæi Dactyli_; some in _Rhodes_, where they were called _Telchines_; some
in _Samothrace_, where they were called _Cabiri_; some in _Eubœa_, where,
before the invention of iron, they wrought in copper, in a city thence
called _Chalcis_ some in _Lemnos_, where they assisted _Vulcan_; and some
in _Imbrus_, and other places: and a considerable number of them settled in
_Ætolia_, which was thence called the country of the _Curetes_; until
_Ætolus_ the son of _Endymion_, having slain _Apis_ King of _Sicyon_, fled
thither, and by the assistance of his father invaded it, and from his own
name called it _Ætolia_: and by the assistance of these artificers,
_Cadmus_ found out gold in the mountain _Pangæus_ in _Thrace_, and copper
at _Thebes_; whence copper ore is still called _Cadmia_. Where they settled
they wrought first in copper, 'till iron was invented, and then in iron;
and when they had made themselves armour, they danced in it at the
sacrifices with tumult and clamour, and bells, and pipes, and drums, and
swords, with which they struck upon one another's armour, in musical times,
appearing seized with a divine fury; and this is reckoned the original of
music in _Greece:_ so _Solinus_ [155] _Studium musicum inde cœptum cum Idæi
Dactyli modulos crepitu & tinnitu æris deprehensos in versificum ordinem
transtulissent_: and [156] _Isidorus_, _Studium musicum ab Idæis Dactylis
cœptum_. _Apollo_ and the Muses were two Generations later. _Clemens_ [157]
calls the _Idæi Dactyli_ barbarous, that is strangers; and saith, that they
reputed the first wise men, to whom both the letters which they call
_Ephesian_, and the invention of musical rhymes are referred: it seems that
when the _Phœnician_ letters, ascribed to _Cadmus_, were brought into
_Greece_, they were at the same time brought into _Phrygia_ and _Crete_, by
the _Curetes_; who settled in those countries, and called them _Ephesian_,
from the city _Ephesus_, where they were first taught. The _Curetes_, by
their manufacturing copper and iron, and making swords, and armour, and
edged tools for hewing and carving of wood, brought into _Europe_ a new way
of fighting; and gave _Minos_ an opportunity of building a Fleet, and
gaining the dominion of the seas; and set on foot the trades of Smiths and
Carpenters in _Greece_, which are the foundation of manual trades: the
[158] fleet of _Minos_ was without sails, and _Dædalus_ fled from him by
adding sails to his vessel; and therefore ships with sails were not used by
the _Greeks_ before the flight of _Dædalus_, and death of _Minos_, who was
slain in pursuing him to _Sicily_, in the Reign of _Rehoboam_. _Dædalus_
and his nephew _Talus_, in the latter part of the Reign of _Solomon_,
invented the chip-ax, and saw, and wimble, and perpendicular, and compass,
and turning-lath, and glew, and the potter's wheel; and his father
_Eupalamus_ invented the anchor: and these things gave a beginning to
manual Arts and Trades in _Europe_.
The [159] _Curetes_, who thus introduced Letters, and Music, and Poetry,
and Dancing, and Arts, and attended on the Sacrifices, were no less active
about religious institutions, and for their skill and knowledge and
mystical practices, were accounted wise men and conjurers by the vulgar. In
_Phrygia_ their mysteries were about _Rhea_, called _Magna Mater_, and from
the places where she was worshipped, _Cybele_, _Berecynthia_,
_Pessinuntia_, _Dindymene_, _Mygdonia_, and _Idæa Phrygia_: and in _Crete_,
and the _Terra Curetum_, they were about _Jupiter Olympius_, the son of the
_Cretan Rhea_: they represented, [160] that when _Jupiter_ was born in
_Crete_, his mother _Rhea_ caused him to be educated in a cave in mount
_Ida_, under their care and tuition; and [161] that they danced about him
in armour, with great noise, that his father _Saturn_ might not hear him
cry; and when he was grown up, assisted him in conquering his father, and
his father's friends; and in memory of these things instituted their
mysteries. _Bochart_ [162] brings them from _Palestine_, and thinks that
they had the name of _Curetes_ from the people among the _Philistims_
called _Crethim_, or _Cerethites_: _Ezek._ xxv. 16. _Zeph._ ii. 5. 1 _Sam._
xxx. 14, for the _Philistims_ conquered _Zidon_, and mixed with the
_Zidonians_.
The two first Kings of _Crete_, who reigned after the coming of the
_Curetes_, were _Asterius_ and _Minos_; and _Europa_ was the Queen of
_Asterius_, and mother of _Minos_; and the _Idæan Curetes_ were her
countrymen, and came with her and her brother _Alymnus_ into _Crete_, and
dwelt in the _Idæan_ cave in her Reign, and there educated _Jupiter_, and
found out iron, and made armour: and therefore these three, _Asterius_,
_Europa_, and _Minos_, must be the _Saturn_, _Rhea_ and _Jupiter_ of the
_Cretans_. _Minos_ is usually called the son of _Jupiter_; but this is in
relation to the fable, that _Jupiter_ in the shape of a bull, the Ensign of
the Ship, carried away _Europa_ from _Zidon_: for the _Phœnicians_, upon
their first coming into _Greece_, gave the name of _Jao-pater_, _Jupiter_,
to every King: and thus both _Minos_ and his father were _Jupiters_.
_Echemenes_, an ancient author cited by _Athenæus_, [163] said that _Minos_
was that _Jupiter_ who committed the rape upon _Ganimede_; though others
said more truly that it was _Tantalus_: _Minos_ alone was that _Jupiter_
who was most famous among the _Greeks_ for Dominion and Justice, being the
greatest King in all _Greece_ in those days, and the only legislator.
_Plutarch_ [164] tells us, that the people of _Naxus_, contrary to what
others write, pretended that there were two _Minos's_, and two _Ariadnes_;
and that the first _Ariadne_ married _Bacchus_, and the last was carried
away by _Theseus_: but [165] _Homer_, _Hesiod_, _Thucydides_, _Herodotus_,
and _Strabo_, knew but of one _Minos_; and _Homer_ describes him to be the
son of _Jupiter_ and _Europa_, and the brother of _Rhadamanthus_ and
_Sarpedon_, and the father of _Deucalion_ the _Argonaut_, and grandfather
of _Idomeneus_ who warred at _Troy_, and that he was the legislator of
Hell: _Herodotus_ [166] makes _Minos_ and _Rhadamanthus_ the sons of
_Europa_, contemporary to _Ægeus_: and [167] _Apollodorus_ and _Hyginus_
say, that _Minos_, the father of _Androgeus_, _Ariadne_ and _Phædra_, was
the son of _Jupiter_ and _Europa_, and brother of _Rhadamanthus_ and
_Sarpedon_.
_Lucian_ [168] lets us know that _Europa_ the mother of _Minos_ was
worshipped by the name of _Rhea_, the form of a woman sitting in a chariot
drawn by lions, with a drum in her hand, and a _Corona turrita_ on her
head, like _Astarte_ and _Isis_; and the _Cretans_ [169] anciently shewed
the house where this _Rhea_ lived: and [170] _Apollonius Rhodius_ tells us,
that _Saturn_, while he Reigned over the _Titans_ in _Olympus_, a mountain
in _Crete_, and _Jupiter_ was educated by the _Curetes_ in the _Cretan_
cave, deceived _Rhea_, and of _Philyra_ begot _Chiron_: and therefore the
_Cretan Saturn_ and _Rhea_, were but one Generation older than _Chiron_,
and by consequence not older than _Asterius_ and _Europa_, the parents of
_Minos_; for _Chiron_ lived 'till after the _Argonautic_ Expedition, and
had two grandsons in that Expedition, and _Europa_ came into _Crete_ above
an hundred years before that Expedition: _Lucian_ [171] tells us, that the
_Cretans_ did not only relate, that _Jupiter_ was born and buried among
them, but also shewed his sepulchre: and _Porphyry_ [172] tells us, that
_Pythagoras_ went down into the _Idæan_ cave, to see sepulchre: and
_Cicero_, [173] in numbering three _Jupiters_, saith, that the third was
the _Cretan Jupiter_, _Saturn_'s son, whose sepulchre was shewed in
_Crete_: and the Scholiast upon _Callimachus_ [174] lets us know, that this
was the sepulchre of _Minos_: his words are, Εν Κρητη επι τωι ταφωι του
Μινωος επεγεγραπτο, ΜΙΝΩΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΔΙΟΣ ΤΑΦΟΣ. τωι χρονωι δε του Μινωος
απηλειφθη, ‛ωστε περιλειφθηναι, ΔΙΟΣ ΤΑΦΟΣ. εκ τουτου ουν εχειν λεγουσι
Κρητες τον ταφον του Διος. _In _Crete_ upon the Sepulchre of _Minos_ was
written _Minois Jovis sepulchrum_: but in time _Minois_ wore out so that
there remained only, _Jovis sepulchrum_, and thence the _Cretans_ called it
the Sepulchre of _Jupiter__. By _Saturn_, _Cicero_, who was a _Latine_,
understood the _Saturn_ so called by the _Latines_: for when _Saturn_ was
expelled his Kingdom he fled from _Crete_ by sea, to _Italy_; and this the
Poets exprest by saying, that _Jupiter_ cast him down to _Tartarus_, that
is, into the Sea: and because he lay hid in _Italy_, the _Latines_ called
him _Saturn_; and _Italy_, _Saturnia_, and _Latium_, and themselves
_Latines_: so [175] _Cyprian_; _Antrum Jovis in Creta visitur, & sepulchrum
ejus ostenditur: & ab eo Saturnum fugatum esse manifestum est: unde Latium
de latebra ejus nomen accepit: hic literas imprimere, hic signare nummos in
Italia primus instituit, unde ærarium Saturni vocatur; & rusticitatis hic
cultor fuit, inde falcem ferens senex pingitur:_ and _Minutius Felix_;
_Saturnus Creta profugus, Italiam metu filii sævientis accesserat, & Jani
susceptus hospitio, rudes illos homines & agrestes multa docuit, ut
Græculus & politus, literas imprimere, nummos signare, instrumenta
conficere: itaque latebram suam, quod tuto latuisset, vocari maluit Latium,
& urbem Saturniam de suo nomine. * * Ejus filius Jupiter Cretæ excluso
parente regnavit, illic obiit, illic filios habuit; adhuc antrum Jovis
visitur, & sepulchrum ejus ostenditur, & ipsis sacris suis humanitatis
arguitur_: and _Tertullian_; [176] _Quantum rerum argumenta docent, nusquam
invenio fideliora quam apud ipsam Italiam, in qua Saturnus post multas
expeditiones, postque Attica hospitia consedit, exceptus ab Jano, vel Jane
ut Salii volunt. Mons quem incoluerat Saturnius dictus: civitas quam
depalaverat Saturnia usque nunc est. Tota denique Italia post Oenotriam
Saturnia cognominabatur. Ab ipso primum tabulæ, & imagine signatus nummus,
& inde ærario præsidet_. By _Saturn_'s carrying letters into _Italy_, and
coyning money, and teaching agriculture, and making instruments, and
building a town, you may know that he fled from _Crete_, after letters, and
the coyning of money, and manual arts were brought into _Europe_ by the
_Phœnicians_; and from _Attica_, after agriculture was brought into
_Greece_ by _Ceres_; and so could not be older than _Asterius_, and
_Europa_, and her brother _Cadmus_: and by _Italy_'s being called
_Oenotria_, before it was called _Saturnia_, you may know that he came into
_Italy_ after _Oenotrus_, and so was not older than the sons of _Lycaon_.
_Oenotrus_ carried the first colony of the _Greeks_ into _Italy_, _Saturn_
the second, and _Evander_ the third; and the _Latines_ know nothing older
in _Italy_ than _Janus_ and _Saturn_: and therefore _Oenotrus_ was the
_Janus_ of the _Latines_, and _Saturn_ was contemporary to the sons of
_Lycaon_, and by consequence also to _Celeus_, _Erechtheus_, _Ceres_, and
_Asterius_: for _Ceres_ educated _Triptolemus_ the son of _Celeus_, in the
Reign of _Erechtheus_, and then taught him to plow and sow corn: _Arcas_
the son of _Callisto_, and grandson of _Lycaon_, received corn from
_Triptolemus_, and taught his people to make bread of it; and _Procris_,
the daughter of _Erechtheus_, fled to _Minos_ the son of _Asterius_. In
memory of _Saturn_'s coming into _Italy_ by sea, the _Latines_ coined their
first money with his head on one side, and a ship on the other. _Macrobius_
[177] tells us, that when _Saturn_ was dead, _Janus_ erected an Altar to
him, with sacred rites as to a God, and instituted the _Saturnalia_, and
that humane sacrifices were offered to him; 'till _Hercules_ driving the
cattle of _Geryon_ through _Italy_, abolished that custom: by the human
sacrifices you may know that _Janus_ was of the race of _Lycaon_; which
character agrees to _Oenotrus_. _Dionysius Halicarnassensis_ tells us
further, that _Oenotrus_ having found in the western parts of _Italy_ a
large region fit for pasturage and tillage, but yet for the most part
uninhabited, and where it was inhabited, peopled but thinly; in a certain
part of it, purged from the _Barbarians_, he built towns little and
numerous, in the mountains; which manner of building was familiar to the
ancients: and this was the Original of Towns in _Italy_.
_Pausanias_ [178] tells us that _the people of _Elis_, who were best
skilled in Antiquities, related this to have been the Original of the
Olympic Games: that _Saturn_ Reigned first and had a Temple built to him in
_Olympia_ by the men of the Golden Age; and that when _Jupiter_ was newly
born, his mother _Rhea_ recommended him to the care of the _Idæi Dactyli_,
who were also called _Curetes_: that afterwards five of them, called
_Hercules_, _Pœonius_, _Epimedes_, _Jasius_, and _Ida_, came from _Ida_, a
mountain in _Crete_, into _Elis_; and _Hercules_, called also _Hercules
Idæus_, being the oldest of them, in memory of the war between _Saturn_ and
_Jupiter_, instituted the game of racing, and that the victor should be
rewarded with a crown of olive_; and there erected an altar to _Jupiter
Olympius_, and called these games Olympic: and that some of the _Eleans_
said, _that _Jupiter_ contended here with _Saturn_ for the Kingdom; others
that _Hercules Idæus_ instituted these games in memory of their victory
over the _Titans__: for the people of _Arcadia_ [179] had a tradition, that
the Giants fought with the Gods in the valley of _Bathos_, near the river
_Alpheus_ and the fountain _Olympias_. [180] Before the Reign of
_Asterius_, his father _Teutamus_ came into _Crete_ with a colony from
_Olympia_; and upon the flight of _Asterius_, some of his friends might
retire with him into their own country, and be pursued and beaten there by
the _Idæan Hercules_: the _Eleans_ said also that _Clymenus_ the grandson
of the _Idæan Hercules_, about fifty years after _Deucalion_'s flood,
coming from _Crete_, celebrated these games again in _Olympia_, and erected
there an altar to _Juno Olympia_, that is, to _Europa_, and another to this
_Hercules_ and the rest of the _Curetes_; and Reigned in _Elis_ 'till he
was expelled by _Endymion_, [181] who thereupon celebrated these games
again: and so did _Pelops_, who expelled _Ætolus_ the son of _Endymion_;
and so also did _Hercules_ the son of _Alcmena_, and _Atreus_ the son of
_Pelops_, and _Oxylus_: they might be celebrated originally in triumph for
victories, first by _Hercules Idæus_, upon the conquest of _Saturn_ and the
_Titans_, and then by _Clymenus_, upon his coming to Reign in the _Terra
Curetum_; then by _Endymion_, upon his conquering _Clymenus_; and
afterwards by _Pelops_, upon his conquering _Ætolus_; and by _Hercules_,
upon his killing _Augeas_; and by _Atreus_, upon his repelling the
_Heraclides_; and by _Oxylus_, upon the return of the _Heraclides_ into
_Peloponnesus_. This _Jupiter_, to whom they were instituted, had a Temple
and Altar erected to him in _Olympia_, where the games were celebrated, and
from the place was called _Jupiter Olympius_: _Olympia_ was a place upon
the confines of _Pisa_, near the river _Alpheus_.
In the [182] Island _Thasus_, where _Cadmus_ left his brother _Thasus_, the
_Phœnicians_ built a Temple to _Hercules Olympius_, that _Hercules_, whom
_Cicero_ [183] calls _ex Idæis Dactylis; cui inferias afferunt_. When the
mysteries of _Ceres_ were instituted in _Eleusis_, there were other
mysteries instituted to her and her daughter and daughter's husband, in the
Island _Samothrace_, by the _Phœnician_ names of _Dii Cabiri Axieros_,
_Axiokersa_, and _Axiokerses_, that is, the great Gods _Ceres_,
_Proserpina_ and _Pluto_: for [184] _Jasius_ a _Samothracian_, whose sister
married _Cadmus_, was familiar with _Ceres_; and _Cadmus_ and _Jasius_ were
both of them instituted in these mysteries. _Jasius_ was the brother of
_Dardanus_, and married _Cybele_ the daughter of _Meones_ King of
_Phrygia_, and by her had _Corybas_; and after his death, _Dardanus_,
_Cybele_ and _Corybas_ went into _Phrygia_, and carried thither the
mysteries of the mother of the Gods, and _Cybele_ called the goddess after
her own name, and _Corybas_ called her priests _Corybantes_: thus
_Diodorus_; but _Dionysius_ saith [185] that _Dardanus_ instituted the
_Samothracian_ mysteries, and that his wife _Chryses_ learnt them in
_Arcadia_, and that _Idæus_ the son of _Dardanus_ instituted afterwards the
mysteries of the mother of the gods in _Phrygia_: this _Phrygian_ Goddess
was drawn in a chariot by lions, and had a _corona turrita_ on her head,
and a drum in her hand, like the _Phœnician_ Goddess _Astarte_, and the
_Corybantes_ danced in armour at her sacrifices in a furious manner, like
the _Idæi Dactyli_; and _Lucian_ [186] tells us that she was the _Cretan
Rhea_, that is, _Europa_ the mother of _Minos_: and thus the _Phœnicians_
introduced the practice of Deifying dead men and women among the _Greeks_
and _Phrygians_; for I meet with no instance of Deifying dead men and women
in _Greece_, before the coming of _Cadmus_ and _Europa_ from _Zidon_.