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SPORADICALLY Amphion reigned over Thebes, according to others; he was mythologized as charming the stones by playing the cithara, which one must reasonably assume to be certain foolish men. Zethus and Amphion were brothers, shepherds called lyric poets because they played the cithara in a pastoral manner. Orpheus the Thracian was known. His disciple was Musaeus, the son of Eumolpus. The stories about Hypsipyle in Lemnos and the Sphinx, whom Palaephatus says was the wife of Cadmus, who, through jealousy of Harmonia, rebelled and made war on the Cadmeans. and the stories about Oedipus, how he captured her, and the stories about the Argo and the Argonauts, among whom were Heracles and the Dioscuri and Asclepius. But if the Dioscuri flourished with these men, how could Helen be their sister, unless perhaps after many years she was abducted as a virgin by Theseus? 184 In Argos, Hypermnestra daughter of Danaus served as priestess. Zethus and Amphion, having expelled Cadmus, reigned over Thebes. Lapis reigned over Crete. Apteras reigned over Crete, who also founded the city.

KINGS OF THE ATHENIANS The 2nd king of the Athenians was Cranaus, an autochthon, for 9 years. of

the world it was year 3065. This Cranaus, the second king of Attica, had a daughter, Atthis, after whom the land of Attica was named, previously being called Acte. In the time of this Cranaus, the flood of Deucalion happened in Thessaly and the conflagration of Phaethon in Ethiopia. And many other local destructions have befallen the Greeks, as Plato says in the Timaeus. From Hellen son of Deucalion, the Graeci are called Hellenes. The 3rd king of the Athenians was Amphictyon for 10 years, son of Deucalion, son-in-law of Cranaus. and of the world it was year 4004. In the time of Amphictyon, son of Deucalion, some say that Dionysus, coming to Attica, was entertained by Semachus and gave his daughter a fawn-skin. But this one was another, born of Semele. The 4th king of the Athenians was Erichthonius for 50 years. and of the world it was year 4014. This Erichthonius, son of Hephaestus, is the Erechtheus in Homer. Erichthonius first invented the chariot for the Greeks. for it came from the barbarians. The 5th king of the Athenians was Pandion for 40 years. and of the world it was year 4064. Procne and Philomela were the daughters of this Pandion.

SPORADICALLY Lacedaemon was founded by Lacedaemon from Messene.

Epaphus, son of the second Io and Zeus, founded Memphis in Egypt. 185 Arcas, son of Callisto and Zeus, having conquered the Pelasgians, renamed the country Arcadia. Dardanus founded Dardania. Cadmus reigned over the Thebans, whose daughter Semele's son was Dionysus, born of adultery, whom the Greeks mythically say was the son of Zeus. In their time, Linus and Amphion and Zethus, Theban lyric poets and musicians, were known, according to some; but others say after these times. Phoenix reigned over the Tyrians. Minos, son of Europa, reigned over Crete. Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon ruled the Lycians. Amphion and Zethus reigned over seven-gated Thebes. Erichthonius, son of Dardanus, reigned over Dardania. The abduction of Europa. Harmonia was abducted by Cadmus. The so-called Idaean Dactyls, who discovered iron, were in this time. Melos and Thasos and Alcesthe were founded, and Paphos. Bithynia was founded by Phoenix, previously called Mariandynē. Ephyra, now Corinth, was settled by Sisyphus. The abduction of the maiden Persephone by Aidoneus, king of the Molossians, who had a very large dog called Cerberus, with which he later killed Pirithous when he came with Theseus to abduct his wife. But Heracles, happening upon Theseus, rescued him as he was about to be destroyed with Pirithous. And because of the manifest danger, it is believed that Theseus came up from Hades, as Philochorus relates in the second book of his Atthis. Celeus reigned over the city of Eleusis, in whose time Triptolemus lived, whom Philochorus says approached cities in a long ship giving grain, and it was supposed that the ship was a winged serpent; and it had something also of the

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ΣΠΟΡΑ∆ΗΝ Ἀμφίων Θηβῶν ἐβασίλευσεν, ὡς ἄλλοι· οὗτος ἐμυθεύετο κιθαρίζων θέλγειν τοὺς λίθους, οὓς εὐλόγως ὑποληπτέον ἠλιθίους τινὰς ἀνθρώπους. Ζῆθος δὲ καὶ Ἀμφίων ἀδελφοὶ ἦσαν ποιμένες λυρικοὶ καλούμενοι διὰ τὸ κιθαρίζειν ποιμενικῶς. Ὀρφεὺς Θρᾲξ ἐγνωρίζετο. τούτου μαθητὴς Μουσαῖος ὁ Εὐμόλπου υἱός. Τὰ κατὰ Ὑψιπύλην ἐν Λήμνῳ καὶ Σφίγγα, ἣν Παλαίφατος Κάδμου γυ ναῖκά φησι γενομένην διὰ ζῆλον Ἁρμονίας ἀποστᾶσαν Καδμείοις πολεμεῖν. τά τε περὶ Οἰδίπου, ὡς εἷλεν αὐτήν, καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἀργῶ καὶ τοὺς Ἀργοναύτας, ἐν οἷς ἦσαν Ἡρακλῆς καὶ οἱ ∆ιόσκοροι καὶ Ἀσκληπιός. εἰ δὲ τούτοις οἱ ∆ιόσκοροι συνήκμαζον, πῶς δύναται τούτων εἶναι ἀδελφὴ Ἑλένη, εἰ μή που μετὰ πολλὰ ἔτη παρθένος ἁρπάζεται ὑπὸ Θησέως; 184 Ἐν Ἄργει ἱεράτευσεν Ὑπερμνήστρα ∆αναοῦ. Ζῆθος καὶ Ἀμφίων Κάδμον ἐκβαλόντες Θηβῶν ἐβασίλευσαν. Κρήτης ἐβασίλευσε Λάπις. Κρήτης ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀπτέρας, ὃς καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἔκτισεν.

ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΣ Ἀθηναίων βʹ ἐβασίλευσε Κραναὸς αὐτόχθων ἔτη θʹ. τοῦ

δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος γζεʹ. Κραναοῦ τούτου δευτέρου βασιλέως τῆς Ἀττικῆς θυγάτηρ ἦν Ἀτθίς, καθ' ἣν Ἀττικὴ ἡ χώρα ὠνομάσθη, πρότερον Ἀκτὴ λεγομένη. Κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν Κραναὸν ὁ ἐπὶ ∆ευκαλίωνος κατακλυσμὸς ἐν Θεσσα λίᾳ καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ Φαέθοντος ἐμπρησμὸς ἐν Αἰθιοπίᾳ. πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλαι γε γόνασιν Ἕλλησι τοπικαὶ φθοραί, ὡς Πλάτων ἐν Τιμαίῳ. Ἀπὸ δὲ Ἕλληνος τοῦ ∆ευκαλίωνος Ἕλληνες οἱ Γραικοὶ καλοῦνται. Ἀθηναίων γʹ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀμφικτύων ἔτη ιʹ, υἱὸς ∆ευκαλίωνος, γαμ βρὸς Κραναοῦ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος δδʹ. Κατὰ Ἀμφικτύωνα τὸν ∆ευκαλίωνος υἱόν τινές φασι ∆ιόνυσον εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἐλθόντα ξενωθῆναι Σημάχῳ καὶ τῇ θυγατρὶ αὐτοῦ νεβρίδα δωρή σασθαι. ἕτερος δ' ἦν οὗτος ἐκ Σεμέλης. Ἀθηναίων δʹ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἐριχθόνιος ἔτη νʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος διδʹ. Οὗτος Ἐριχθόνιος Ἡφαίστου ὁ παρ' Ὁμήρῳ Ἐρεχθεύς ἐστιν. Ἐριχθνιος ἅρμα πρῶτος Ἕλλησιν ἐφεῦρεν. ἦν γὰρ παρὰ βαρβάρων. Ἀθηναίων εʹ ἐβασίλευσε Πανδίων ἔτη μʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος δξδʹ. Τούτου θυγατέρες Πρόκνη καὶ Φιλομήλα τοῦ Πανδίονος.

ΣΠΟΡΑ∆ΗΝ Λακεδαιμονία ἐκτίσθη ὑπὸ Λακεδαίμονος τοῦ ἐκ Μεσσήνης.

Ἔπαφος Ἰοῦς τῆς δευτέρας καὶ ∆ιὸς υἱὸς Μέμφιν ἔκτισεν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. 185 Ἀρκὰς ὁ Καλλιστοῦς καὶ ∆ιὸς υἱὸς Πελασγῶν κρατήσας Ἀρκαδίαν τὴν χώραν μετωνόμασε. ∆άρδανος ἔκτισε ∆αρδανίαν. Κάδμος Θηβαίων ἐβασίλευσεν, οὗ τῆς θυγατρὸς Σεμέλης υἱὸς ὁ ∆ιόνυσος ἐκ μοιχείας, ὃν Ἕλληνες ∆ιός φασι μυθικῶς. Κατὰ τούτους Λίνος καὶ Ἀμφίων καὶ Ζῆθος λυρικοὶ Θηβαῖοι καὶ μουσ ουργοὶ ἐγνωρίζοντο, ὥς τινες· ἄλλοι δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα. Φοῖνιξ Τυρίοις ἐβασίλευσε. Μίνως Κρήτης ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ Εὐρώπης. Ῥαδάμανθυς καὶ Σαρπηδὼν Λυκίων ἦρχον. Ἀμφίων καὶ Ζῆθος Θηβαίων ἑπταπύλων ἐβασίλευον. ∆αρδανίας Ἐριχθόνιος ∆αρδάνου ἐβασίλευσεν. Εὐρώπης ἁρπαγή. Ἁρμονία ἡρπάγη ὑπὸ Κάδμου. Οἱ Ἰδαῖοι ∆άκτυλοι λεγόμενοι, οἱ σίδηρον εὑρόντες, κατὰ τούτους ἦσαν. Μῆλος καὶ Θάσος καὶ Ἀλκισθὴ ἐκτίσθησαν καὶ Πάφος. Βιθυνία ἐκτίσθη ὑπὸ Φοίνικος, ἡ πρὶν Μαριανδηνὴ καλουμένη. Ἐφύρα ἡ νῦν Κόρινθος ὑπὸ Σισύφου ᾠκίσθη. Κόρης ἁρπαγὴ Περσεφόνης ὑπὸ Ἀιδωνέως τοῦ Μολοσσῶν βασιλέως, ὃς εἶχε κύνα παμμεγέθη τὸν λεγόμενον Κέρβερον, ᾧ τὸν Πειρίθουν ὕστε ρον διεχρήσατο παραγενόμενον ἐφ' ἁρπαγῇ τῆς γυναικὸς ἅμα Θησεῖ. Θη σέα δὲ παρατυχὼν Ἡρακλῆς ἐρρύσατο μέλλοντα συνδιαφθείρεσθαι τῷ Πειρίθῳ. διὰ δὲ τὸ τοῦ κινδύνου προῦπτον ἐξ Ἅιδου νομίζεται Θησεὺς ἀνεληλυθέναι, ὡς Φιλόχορος ἱστορεῖ ἐν Ἀτθίδος δευτέρῳ. Ἐλευσῖνος πόλεως Κελεὸς ἐβασίλευσε, καθ' ὃν Τριπτόλεμος ἦν, ὅν φη σιν ὁ Φιλόχορος μακρῷ πλοίῳ προσβαλόντα ταῖς πόλεσι τὸν σῖτον διδόναι, ὑπονοεῖσθαι δὲ πτερωτὸν ὄφιν εἶναι τὴν ναῦν· ἔχειν δέ τι καὶ τοῦ