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and Spain,
and sets up pillars in all his conquests, and particularly at the mouth of
the Mediterranean, and returns home by the coast of Gaul and Italy.

1007. Ceres being dead Eumolpus institutes her Mysteries in Eleusine.
The Mysteries of Rhea are instituted in Phrygia, in the city Cybele.
About this time Temples begin to be built in Greece. Hyagnis the
Phrygian invents the pipe. After the example of the common-council of
the five Lords of the Philistims, the Greeks set up the Amphictyonic
Council, first at _Thermopylæ_, by the influence of Amphictyon the son
of _Deucalion_; and a few years after at Delphi by the influence of
Acrisius. Among the cites, whose deputies met at _Thermopylæ_, I do
not find Athens, and therefore doubt whether Amphictyon was King of
that city. If he was the son of Deucalion and brother of Hellen, he and
Cranaus might Reign together in several parts of Attica. But I meet
with a later Amphictyon who entertained the great Bacchus. This
Council worshipped Ceres, and therefore was instituted after her death.
1006. Minos prepares a fleet, clears the Greek seas of Pyrates, and
sends Colonies to the Islands of the Greeks, some of which were not
inhabited before. Cecrops II. Reigns in Attica. Caucon teaches the
Mysteries of Ceres in Messene.
1005. Andromeda carried away from Joppa by Perseus. Pandion the
brother of Cecrops II. Reigns in Attica. Car, the son of Phoroneus,
builds a Temple to Ceres.
1002. Sesac
Reigns in Egypt and adorns Thebes, dedicating it to his
father Ammon by the name of _No-Ammon_ or _Ammon-No_, that is
the people or city of _Ammon_: whence the Greeks called it Diospolis,
the city of Jupiter. Sesac also erected Temples and Oracles to his father
in Thebes, Ammonia, and Ethiopia, and thereby caused his father to be
worshipped as a God in those countries, and I think also in _Arabia
Foelix_: and this was the original of the worship of Jupiter Ammon,
and the first mention of Oracles that I meet with in Prophane History.
War between Pandion and Labdacus the grandson of Cadmus.
994. _Ægeus_ Reigns in Attica.
993. Pelops the son of Tantalus comes into Peloponnesus, marries
Hippodamia the granddaughter of Acrisius, takes _Ætolia_ from
_Ætolus_ the son of Endymion, and by his riches grows potent.

990. Amphion and Zethus slay Lycus, put Laius the son of Labdacus to
flight, and Reign in Thebes, and wall the city about.
989. _Dædalus_ and his nephew Talus invent the saw, the turning-lath,
the wimble, the chip-ax, and other instruments of Carpenters and
Joyners, and thereby give a beginning to those Arts in Europe.
_Dædalus_ also invented the making of Statues with their feet asunder,
as if they walked.
988. Minos makes war upon the Athenians, for killing his son
Androgeus. _Æacus_ flourishes.
987. _Dædalus_ kills his nephew Talus, and flies to Minos. A Priestess
of Jupiter Ammon, being brought by Phoenician merchants into Greece,
sets up the Oracle of Jupiter at Dodona. This gives a beginning to
Oracles in _Greece_: and by their dictates, the Worship of the Dead is
every where introduced.
983. Sisyphus, the son of _Æolus_ and grandson of Hellen, Reigns in
Corinth, and some say that he built that city.
980. Laius recovers the Kingdom of Thebes. Athamas, the brother of
Sisyphus and father of Phrixus and Helle, marries Ino the daughter of
Cadmus.
979. Rehoboam Reigns. Thoas is sent from Crete to Lemnos, Reigns
there in the city Hephoestia, and works in copper and iron.
978. Alcmena born of Electryo the son of Perseus and Andromeda, and
of Lysidice the daughter of Pelops.
974. Sesac
spoils the Temple, and invades Syria and Persia, setting up
pillars in many places. Jeroboam, becoming subject to Sesac, sets up
the worship of the Egyptian Gods in Israel.
971. Sesac invades India, and returns with triumph the next year but
one: whence Trieterica Bacchi. He sets up pillars on two mountains at
the mouth of the river Ganges.

968. Theseus Reigns, having overcome the Minotaur, and soon after
unites the twelve cities of Attica under one government. Sesac, having
carried on his victories to Mount Caucasus, leaves his nephew
Prometheus there, and _Æetes_ in Colchis.
967. Sesac, passing over the Hellespont conquers Thrace, kills
Lycurgus King thereof, and gives his Kingdom and one of his
singing-women to Oeagrus the father of Orpheus. Sesac had in his
army Ethiopians commanded by Pan, and Libyan women commanded
by Myrina or Minerva. It was the custom of the Ethiopians to dance
when they were entring into a battel, and from their skipping they were
painted with goats feet in the form of Satyrs.
966. Thoas, being made King of Cyprus by Sesac, goes thither with his
wife Calycopis, and leaves his daughter Hypsipyle in Lemnos.
965. Sesac