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| Chapter XXXIX. Catalogue of the Argive Kings.
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Chapter XXXIX.—Catalogue of the Argive Kings.
The kings of the Argives were these: Inachus,
Phoroneus, Apis, Criasis, Triopas, Argeius, Phorbas, Crotopas, Sthenelaus,
Danaus, Lynceus, Prœtus, Abas, Acrisius, Perseus, Sthenelaus,
Eurystheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamemnon, in the eighteenth year
of whose reign Troy was taken. And every intelligent person will most
carefully observe that, according to the tradition of the Greeks, they
possessed no historical composition; for Cadmus, who taught them letters,
came into Bœotia many generations later. But after Inachus, under
Phoroneus, a check was with difficulty given to their savage and nomadic
life, and they entered upon a new order of things. Wherefore, if Moses is
shown to be contemporary with Inachus, he is four hundred years older than
the Trojan war. But this is demonstrated from the succession of the Attic,
[and of the
Macedonian, the Ptolemaic, and
the Antiochian]512
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words within brackets, though they occur in the mss. and in Eusebius, are supposed by some
scholars to be a very old interpolation. | kings. Hence, if
the most illustrious deeds among the Greeks were recorded and made known
after Inachus, it is manifest that this must have been after Moses. In
the time of Phoroneus, who was after Inachus, Ogygus is mentioned among
the Athenians, in whose time was the first deluge; and in the time
of Phorbas was Actæus, from whom Attica was called Actæa;
and in the time of Triopas were Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Atlas,
and Cecrops of double nature, and Io; in the time of Crotopas was the
burning of Phaëthon and the flood of Deucalion; in the time of
Sthenelus was the reign of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus into
Peloponnesus, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, and the return
of Europa from Phœnicia to Crete; in the time of Lynceus was the
abduction of Koré, and the founding of the temple in Eleusis, and
the husbandry of Triptolemus, and the coming of Cadmus to Thebes, and
the reign of Minos; in the time of Prœtus was the war of Eumolpus
against the Athenians; in the time of Acrisius was the coming over of
Pelops from Phrygia, and the coming of Ion to Athens, and the second
Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and Dionysus, and Musæus, the
disciple of Orpheus; and in the reign of Agamemnon Troy was taken.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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