these circumstances Critheus Sisyphus & Athamas flourished in the latter
part of the reign of Solomon & in the reign of Rhehoboam. Aëthlius, Æolus, Xuthus,
Dorus, Tantalus & Danae were contemporary to Erechtheus, Iasion & Cadmus;
& Hellen was about one & Deucalion about two generations older than
Erechtheus. They could not be much older because Xuthus the youngest son
of Hellen ^b 1 married Creusa the daughter of Erechtheus. Nor could they
be much younger because Cephalus the son of Deioneus the son of Æolus
the eldest son of Hellen ^c 2 married Procris the daughter of Erechtheus, & Procris & Procris fled from her husband to Minos. Vpon the death of
Hellen his youngest son ^d 3 Xuthus was expelled Thessaly by his brothers
Æolus & Dorus, & fled to Erechtheus & married Creusa the daughter
of Erechtheus by whom he had two sons Achæus & Ion, the youngest
of which grew up before the death of Erechtheus & commanded the
army of the Athenians in the war in w^ch Erechtheus was slain. And
therefore Hellen died about one generation before Erechtheus.

Sisyphus therefore built Corinth about the latter end of the
reign of Solomon or the beginning of the reign of Rehoboam. Vpon the
flight of Phrixus & Helle, their father Athamas, a little King in Bœotia,
went distracted & slew his son Learchus, & his wife Ino went distruc-
ted & slein his son Learchus & [illeg] threw her self into the sea together
with her other son Melicertus. And thereupon Sisyphus instituted the
isthmia at Corinth to his nephew Melicertus. This was presently after
Sesostris had left Æetes at Colchis, I think in the fifteenth or sixteenth
year of Rehoboam. So then Athamas the son of Æolus & grandson of
Hellen & Ino the daughter of Cadmus flourished till about the sixteenth
year of Rehoboam. Sisyphus & his successors Ornytion, Thoas, Demo-
phaon, Propadas, Doradas & Hyanthidus reigned successively at Corinth
till the return of the Heraclides into Peloponnesus. Then reigned the Heraclides
Aletes, Ixion, Agelas, Prumnes, Bacchis, Agelas II, Eudamus, Aristodemus, &
Telestes successively about 180 \170/ years, & then Corinth was governed by \Prytanes or/ annual
Archons about 40 or 50 years, & after them by Cypselus & Periander about
50 years more.

Celeus King of Eleusis who was contemporary to Erechtheus was ^a 4 the son
of Erechtheus Rharus the son of Cranaus the successor of Cecrops; & in the reign
of Cranaus, Deucalion fled with his sons Hellen & Amphictyon from the flood which
then overflowed Thessaly, & was called Deucalions flood. They fled into Attica,
& there Deucalion died soon after: And Pausanias tells us that his sepulchre was
to be seen near Athens. His eldest son Hellen succeeded him in Thessaly, &
his other son Amphictyon married the daughter of Cranaus, & reigning at Thermo-
pylæ, erected there the Amphictyonic council: & Acrisius soon after erected
the like Council at Delphos. This I conceive was done when Amphictyon & Acrisius
were aged & fit to be councellours; suppose in the latter half of the reign of David
& beginning of the reign of Solomon. And soon after, suppose about the middle of the
reign of Solomon, did Phemonoe become the first Priestess of Apollo at Delphos, & gave
Oracles in hexameter verse: & then was Acrisius slain by his grandson Perseus. The
Council of Thermopylæ included twelve nations of the Greeks, without Attica, & there-
fore Amphictyon did not then reign at Athens. He might endeavour to succeed Crana-
us his wifes father, & be prevented by Erecthonius, or rather by Erechtheus.

For Between the reigns of Cranaus & Erechtheus Chronologers place also Erich-
thonius & his son Pandion. But I take this Erichthonius & this his son Pandion to be the
same with Erechtheus & his son & successor Pandion, the names being only repeated
with a little variation in the list of the Kings of Attica. For Erichthonius (he that
was the son of the earth nursed up by Minerva) is by Homer called Erechtheus.
And Themistius ^a 5 tells us that it was Erechtheus who first joyned a chariot to
horses. And Plato ^b 6 alluding to the story of Erechthonius in a basket, saith, The
people of magnanimous Erechtheus is beautiful, but it behoves us to behold him
taken out. Erechtheus therefore immediately succeeded Cranaus while Amphictyon
reigned at Thermopylæ. In the reign of Cranaus the Poets place the flood of Deu-
calion, & therefore the death of Deucalion & the reign of his sons Hellen and
Amphictyon in Thessaly & Thermpolyæ, began but a few years (suppose eight or ten) before the reign of Erechtheus.

The first Kings of Arcadia were successively ^a 7 Pelasgus, Lycaon, Nyctimus,
Arcas, Clitor, Epytus, Aleus, Lycurgus, Echemus, Agapenor, Hippo [to]us \thous,/ Epytus,
Cypselus, Oleus, &c. Vnder Cypselus the Heraclides returned into Peloponesus, as