The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended to Which Is Prefix'd a Short Chronicle From the First Memory of Things in Europe to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great
Sep 2020 · Library of Alexandria
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TheÊGreekÊAntiquities are full of Poetical Fictions, because theÊGreeksÊwrote nothing in Prose, before the Conquest ofÊAsiaÊbyÊCyrusÊtheÊPersian. ThenÊPherecydes ScyriusÊandÊCadmus MilesiusÊintroduced the writing in Prose.ÊPherecydes Atheniensis, about the end of the Reign ofÊDarius Hystaspis, wrote of Antiquities, and digested his work by Genealogies, and was reckoned one of the best Genealogers.EpimenidesÊthe Historian proceeded also by Genealogies; andÊHellanicus, who was twelve years older thanHerodotus, digested his History by the Ages or Successions of the Priestesses ofÊJuno Argiva. Others digested theirs by the Kings of theÊLaced¾monians, or Archons ofÊAthens.ÊHippiasÊtheÊElean, about thirty years before the fall of theÊPersianÊEmpire, published a breviary or list of the Olympic Victors; and about ten years before the fall thereof,ÊEphorusÊthe disciple ofÊIsocratesÊformed a Chronological History ofGreece, beginning with the return of theÊHeraclidesÊintoÊPeloponnesus, and ending with the siege ofPerinthus, in the twentieth year ofÊPhilipÊthe father ofÊAlexanderÊthe great: But he digested things by Generations, and the reckoning by Olympiads was not yet in use, nor doth it appear that the Reigns of Kings were yet set down by numbers of years. TheÊArundelianÊmarbles were composed sixty years after the death ofÊAlexanderÊthe great (An.Ê4.ÊOlymp.Ê128.) and yet mention not the Olympiads: But in the next Olympiad,ÊTim¾us SiculusÊpublished an history in several books down to his own times, according to the Olympiads, comparing the Ephori, the Kings ofÊSparta, the Archons ofÊAthens, and the Priestesses ofArgos, with the Olympic Victors, so as to make the Olympiads, and the Genealogies and Successions of Kings, Archons, and Priestesses, and poetical histories suit with one another, according to the best of his judgment. And where he left off,ÊPolybiusÊbegan and carried on the history.
So then a little after the death ofÊAlexanderÊthe great, they began to set down the Generations, Reigns and Successions, in numbers of years, and by putting Reigns and Successions equipollent to Generations, and three Generations to an hundred or an hundred and twenty years (as appears by their Chronology) they have made the Antiquities ofÊGreeceÊthree or four hundred years older than the truth. And this was the original of the Technical Chronology of theÊGreeks.ÊEratosthenesÊwrote about an hundred years after the death ofÊAlexanderÊthe great: He was followed byÊApollodorus, and these two have been followed ever since by Chronologers.Ê
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