The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended | Page 6

in the first of which Chiron the son of Saturn and Philyra was
born, and the last of which according to Hesiod ended with the Trojan
War; and so places the Destruction of Troy four Generations or about
140 years later than that flood, and the coming of Cadmus, reckoning
with the ancients three Generations to an hundred years. With these
Phoenicians came a sort of men skilled in the Religious Mysteries, Arts,
and Sciences of Phoenicia, and settled in several places under the
names of Curetes, Corybantes, Telchines, and _Idæi Dactyli_.
1043. Hellen, the son of Deucalion, and father of _Æolus_, Xuthus, and
Dorus, flourishes.

1035. Erectheus Reigns in Attica. _Æthlius_, the grandson of
Deucalion and father of Endymion, builds Elis. The _Idæi Dactyli_ find
out Iron in mount Ida in Crete, and work it into armour and iron tools,
and thereby give a beginning to the trades of smiths and armourers in
_Europe_; and by singing and dancing in their armour, and keeping
time by striking upon one another's armour with their swords, they
bring in Music and Poetry; and at the same time they nurse up the
Cretan Jupiter in a cave of the same mountain, dancing about him in
their armour.
1034. Ammon Reigns in Egypt. He conquered Libya, and reduced that
people from a wandering savage life to a civil one, and taught them to
lay up the fruits of the earth; and from him Libya and the desert above
it were anciently called Ammonia. He was the first that built long and
tall ships with sails, and had a fleet of such ships on the Red Sea, and
another on the Mediterranean at Irasa in Libya. 'Till then they used
small and round vessels of burden, invented on the Red Sea, and kept
within sight of the shore. For enabling them to cross the seas without
seeing the shore, the Egyptians began in his days to observe the Stars:
and from this beginning Astronomy and Sailing had their rise. Hitherto
the Lunisolar year had been in use: but this year being of an uncertain
length, and so, unfit for Astronomy, in his days and in the days of his
sons and grandsons, by observing the Heliacal Risings and Setting of
the Stars, they found the length of the Solar year, and made it consist of
five days more than the twelve calendar months of the old Lunisolar
year. Creusa the daughter of Erechtheus marries Xuthus the son of
Hellen. Erechtheus having first celebrated the _Panathenæa_ joins
horses to a chariot. _Ægina_, the daughter of Asopus, and mother of
_Æacus_, born.
1030. Ceres a woman of Sicily, in seeking her daughter who was stolen,
comes into Attica, and there teaches the Greeks to sow corn; for which
Benefaction she was Deified after death. She first taught the Art to
Triptolemus the young son of Celeus King of Eleusis.
1028. Oenotrus the youngest son of Lycaon, the Janus of the Latines,
led the first Colony of Greeks into Italy, and there taught them to build

houses. Perseus born.
1020. Arcas, the son of Callisto and grandson of Lycaon, and Eumelus
the first King of Achaia, receive bread-corn from Triptolemus.
1019. Solomon Reigns, and marries the daughter of Ammon, and by
means of this affinity is supplied with horses from _Egypt_; and his
merchants also bring horses from thence for all the Kings of the Hittites
and _Syrians_: for horses came originally from _Libya_; and thence
Neptune was called Equestris. Tantalus King of Phrygia steals
Ganimede the son of Tros King of Troas.
1017. Solomon by the assistance of the Tyrians and Aradians, who had
mariners among them acquainted with the Red Sea, sets out a fleet
upon that sea. Those assistants build new cities in the Persian Gulph,
called Tyre and Aradus.
1015. The Temple of Solomon is founded. Minos Reigns in Crete
expelling his father Asterius, who flees into Italy, and becomes the
Saturn of the Latines. Ammon takes Gezer from the Canaanites, and
gives it to his daughter, _Solomon's_ wife.
1014. Ammon places Cepheus at Joppa.
1010. Sesac in the Reign of his father Ammon invades Arabia Foelix,
and sets up pillars at the mouth of the Red Sea. Apis, Epaphus
or
Epopeus, the son of Phroroneus, and Nycteus King of Boeotia, slain.
Lycus inherits the Kingdom of his brother Nycteus. _Ætolus_ the son of
Endymion flies into the Country of the Curetes in Achaia, and calls it
_Ætolia_; and of Pronoe the daughter of Phorbas begets Pleuron and
Calydon, who built cities in _Ætolia_ called by their own names.
Antiopa the daughter of Nycteus is sent home to Lycus by Lamedon the
successor of Apis, and in the way brings forth Amphion and Zethus.
1008. Sesac, in the Reign of his father Ammon, invades Afric