Archon at Athens. [At this time, Alexander, the son of Amyntas] reigns [over the Macedonians] 74. Since Stesichorus the Himerian, the second of [that name,] gained the victory at Athens; and Megalopol [is in Arcadia,] was built, [CVI years: Dyscinetus being Archon at Athens.] 75. Since Dionysius, the Sicilian, died, and his son Dionysius became tyrant, and Ale[xa]n[der being dead, Ptolomy reigns [over the Macedonians,] CIV years: Nausigenes being Archon at Athens 76. Since the Phoceans [plundered the temple] of Delphi, [XCIV years:] Cephisodorus [being Archon at Athe]ns ..... gained 77. Since Timotheus, having lived XC years, died; [and that [time] 79. Since Ca[lippus, having slain Dion, became tyrant of Syracuse, XC year]s: [Diotimus being Archon at Athens] B. C. 371 [370] 368 358 357 355 354 TABLE XIII. RECTIFICATION OF THE PARIAN CHRONICLE. I. PERIOD. 1. Cecrops, first king of Athens, began to reign 1558 2. Deucalion reigns in Lycoria, near Parnassus, in the ninth year of Cecrops 1549 3. Trial of Mars at the Areopagus, for killing Halirrhothius, the son of Neptune, in the second year of Cranaus 1507 4. Deucalion's flood, flight to Athens, and sacrifice, Deucalion, and their assembly at Thermopyla, in the third year of Amphictyon, king of Athens 6. The Greeks, called Hellenes, from Hellen, son of Deucalion, and king of Phthiotis, in the fourth year of Amphictyon 7. The Cadmia, or citadel at Thebes, built by Cadmus, the son of Agenor, who came from Phœnicia, in the sixth year of Amphictyon B. C. 1504 1497 1496 1494 8. [Eurotas and Lacedæmon] reign in Laconia, in the ninth year of Amphictyon 1491 9. Flight of Danaus and his fifty daughters, from Egypt to Lyndus, in Rhodes, in the fourth year of Erichthonius 10. Erichthonius institutes the chariot-race at the first celebration of the Panathenean games, in the ninth year of his reign 11. Minos the First reigns in Crete; iron found there by the Dactyli, in the [thirty third] year of Pandion 1486 1481 [1407] 12. Ceres teaches the sowing of corn at Athens, and 13. Triptolemus at Eleusis, in the sixteenth year of Erichtheus 14. The poem of Orpheus, on the rape of Proserpine, published in the twenty-sixth year of Erichtheus 15. The Eleusinian mysteries celebrated by Eumolpus 16. The Lustration first instituted, in the ninth year of 17. The Gymnastic games instituted at Eleusis 18. The Lycean rites instituted in Arcadia, in the year of Pandion II. 19. Since Hercules [was initiated in the Eleusinian Athenians, according to the Oracle, by Minos II. king of Crete, in the fifteenth year of Ægeus 21. Theseus collected the inhabitants of Attica to Athens, and instituted a popular government in the second year of his own reign 1384 1374 1301 [1284] 1270 1234 B. C. 22. First celebration of the festival called Ammon, in the fifth of Theseus 1231 23. Since the [Nemean] games were instituted at Athens, in the tenth year of Theseus 1226 24. The expedition of the Greeks against Troy, in the thirteenth year of Menestheus 25. Troy taken by the Greeks in the twenty-second year of Menestheus, and twenty-fourth day of the month Thargelion 1193 · 1184 1181 26. Since the trial of Orestes for killing Ægisthus, at 1177 1043 29. Hesiod, the poet, flourished in the [fourth] year of Megacles, the perpetual Archon 30. Homer, the poet, flourished in the ninth year of Diognetus, the perpetual Archon [919] 884 31. Phidon, king of the Argives, coined silver money at Egina, in the twenty-third year of Diognetus 870 II. PERIOD. 32. Græcian colonies planted in Sicily by Archias, the Corinthian, at Syracuse, &c. in the twentyfirst year of Eschylus, the perpetual Archon 33. Creon, the first of the annual Archons 758 684 N. B. These two dates are perfectly correct, and so are the remaining dates, for the most part: it is therefore unnecessary to repeat them. Next follows Table XIV. by comparing which with Table XII. this Table XIII. was constructed. |