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  HISTORY OF GREECE

  I. Legendary Greece.

  II. Grecian History to the Reign of
  Peisistratus at Athens.

  BY
  GEORGE GROTE, ESQ.

  VOL. II.

  REPRINTED FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

  NEW YORK:
  HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
  329 AND 331 PEARL STREET.
  1877.




CONTENTS.

VOL. II.


PART I.

CONTINUATION OF LEGENDARY GREECE.




CHAPTER XVIII.

CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE.—PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE
DARKNESS, BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.

  SECTION I.—_Return of the Herakleids into Peloponnêsus._

  Exile and low condition of the Herakleids.—Their reappearance as
  a powerful force along with the Dorians.—Mythical account of this
  alliance, as well as of the three tribes of Dorians.—Têmenus,
  Kresphontês, and Aristodêmus, invade Peloponnêsus across the
  gulf of Corinth.—The prophet Karnus slain by Hippotês.—Oxylus
  chosen as guide.—Division of the lands of Peloponnêsus among the
  invaders.—Explanatory value of these legendary events.—Mythical
  title of the Dorians to Peloponnêsus.—Plato makes out a different
  title for the same purpose.—Other legends respecting the Achæans
  and Tisamenus.—Occupation of Argos, Sparta, and Messênia, by
  the Dorians.—Dorians at Corinth—Alêtês.—Oxylus and the Ætolians
  at Elis.—Rights of the Eleians to superintend the Olympic
  games.—Family of Têmenus and Kresphontês lowest in the series
  of subjects for the heroic drama.—Pretence of the historical
  Spartan kings to Achæan origin.—Emigrations from Peloponnêsus
  consequent on the Dorian occupation.—Epeians, Pylians, Achæans,
  Ionians.—Ionians in the north of Peloponnêsus—not recognized
  by Homer.—Date assigned by Thucydidês to the return of the
  Herakleids.                                               _pages_ 1-14

  SECTION II.—_Migration of Thessalians and Bœotians._

  Thessalians move from Thesprôtis into Thessaly.—Non-Hellenic
  character of the Thessalians.—Bœotians—their migration
  from Thessaly into Bœotia.—Discrepant legends about the
  Bœotians.—Affinities between Bœotia and Thessaly.—Transition from
  mythical to historical Bœotia.                                   14-19

  SECTION III—_Emigrations from Greece to Asia and the Islands of
  the Ægæan._

  1. Æolic Emigration.

  Secession of the mythical races of Greece.—Æolic migration under
  the Pelopids.                                                    19-21

  2. Ionic Emigration.

  Ionic emigration—branches off from the legendary history of
  Athens.—Thêseus and Menestheus.—Restoration of the sons of
  Thêseus to their father’s kingdom.—They are displaced by the
  Neleids.—Melanthus and Kodrus.—Devotion and death of Kodrus.—No
  more kings at Athens.—Quarrel of the sons of Kodrus, and
  emigration of Neileus.—Different races who furnished the
  emigrants to Iônia.                                              21-25

  3. Doric Emigrations.

  Dorian colonies in Asia.—Thêra.—Legend of the Minyæ from
  Lemnos.—Minyæ in Triphylia.—Migrations of Dorians to Krete.—Story
  of Andrôn.—Althæmenês, founder of Rhodes.—Kôs, Knidus, and
  Karpathus.                                                       25-31

  Intervening blank between legend and history.—Difficulty
  of explaining that blank, on the hypothesis of continuous
  tradition.—Such an interval essentially connected with the
  genesis of legend.                                               31-34


CHAPTER XIX.

APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND.

  Different schemes of chronology proposed for the mythical
  events.—The data essential to chronological determination
  are here wanting.—Modern chronologists take up the same
  problem as ancient, but with a different canon of belief.—Mr.
  Clinton’s opinion on the computations of the date of the Trojan
  war.—Value of the chronological computations depends on the
  trustworthiness of the genealogies.—Mr.