The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended | Page 9

of the civil wars and distractions
of Egypt, resolve to send an embassy to the nations, upon the Euxine
and Mediterranean Seas, subject to that Empire, and for that end order
the building of the ship Argo.
939. The ship Argo is built after the pattern of the long ship in which
Danaus came into _Greece_: and this was the first long ship built by
the Greeks. Chiron, who was born in the Golden Age, forms the
Constellations for the use of the _Argonauts_; and places the Solstitial
and Equinoctial Points in the fifteenth degrees or middles of the
Constellations of Cancer, _Chelæ_, Capricorn, and Aries. Meton in the

year of Nabonassar 316, observed the Summer Solstice in the eighth
degree of Cancer, and therefore the Solstice had then gone back seven
degrees. It goes back one degree in about seventytwo years, and seven
degrees in about 504 years. Count these years back from the year of
Nabonassar 316, and they will place the Argonautic expedition about
936 years before Christ. Gingris the son of Thoas slain, and Deified by
the name of Adonis.
938. Theseus, being fifty years old, steals Helena then seven years old.
Pirithous the son of Ixion, endeavouring to steal Persephone the
daughter of Orcus King of the Molossians, is slain by the Dog of
_Orcus_; and his companion Theseus is taken and imprisoned. Helena
is set at liberty by her brothers.
937. The Argonautic expedition. Prometheus leaves Mount Caucasus,
being set at liberty by Hercules. Laomedon King of Troy is slain by
Hercules. Priam succeeds him. Talus a brazen man, of the Brazen Age,
the son of Minos, is slain by the Argonauts. _Æsculapius_ and
Hercules were Argonauts, and Hippocrates was the eighteenth from
_Æsculapius_ by the father's side, and the nineteenth from Hercules by
the mother's side; and because these generations, being noted in history,
were most probably by the chief of the family, and for the most part by
the eldest sons; we may reckon 28 or at the most 30 years to a
generation: and thus the seventeen intervals by the father's side and
eighteen by the mother's, will at a middle reckoning amount unto about
507 years; which being counted backwards from the beginning of the
Peloponnesian war, at which time Hippocrates began to flourish, will
reach up to the time where we have placed the Argonautic expedition.
936. Theseus is set at liberty by Hercules.
934. The hunting of the Calydonian boar slain by Meleager.
930. Amenophis, with an army out of Ethiopia
and Thebais, invades the
lower Egypt, conquers Osarsiphus, and drives out the Jews and
_Canaanites_: and this is reckoned the second expulsion of the
Shepherds. Calycopis dies, and is Deified by Thoas with Temples at
Paphos and Amathus in Cyprus, and at Byblus in Syria, and with Priests

and sacred Rites, and becomes the Venus of the ancients, and the Dea
Cypria and Dea Syria. And from these and other places where Temples
were erected to her, she was also called Paphia, Amathusia, Byblia,
Cytherea, Salaminia, Cnidia, Erycina, Idalia, &c. And her three
waiting-women became the three Graces.
928. The war of the seven Captains against Thebes.
927. Hercules and _Æsculapius_ are Deified. Eurystheus drives the
Heraclides out of Peloponnesus. He is slain by Hyllus the son of
Hercules. Atreus the son of Pelops succeeds him in the Kingdom of
_Mycenæ_. Menestheus, the great grandson of Erechtheus, Reigns at
Athens.
925. Theseus is slain, being cast down from a rock.
924. Hyllus invading Peloponnesus is slain by Echemus.
919. Atreus dies. Agamemnon Reigns. In the absence of Menelaus, who
went to look after what his father Atreus had left to him, Paris steals
Helena.
918. The second war against Thebes.
912. Thoas, King of Cyprus and part of Phoenicia dies; and for making
armour for the Kings of _Egypt_; is Deified with a sumptuous Temple
at Memphis by the name of Baal Canaan, Vulcan. This Temple was
said to be built by Menes, the first King of Egypt who reigned next
after the Gods, that is, by
Menoph or Amenophis who reigned next after
the death of Osiris, Isis, Orus, Bubaste and Thoth. The city, Memphis
was also said to be built by _Menes_; he began to build it when he
fortified it against Osarsiphus. And from him it was called Menoph,
Moph, Noph, &c; and is to this day called Menuf by the Arabians. And
therefore Menes who built the city and temple Was Menoph or
Amenophis. The Priests of Egypt at length made this temple above a
thousand years older then Amenophis, and some of them five or ten
thousand years older: but it could not be above two or three hundred
years older than the Reign of Psammiticus who finished it, and died

614 years before Christ.