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CHR ONOLOGY.

CnRONia.E.Greiifa, the daughter of Erechtheus, marries Xuthus the fon ofHellen. Erechtheus, having firft celebrated the Panathenaea, joinshorfes to a chariot. Aegina, the daughter of Afopus, and mo-tlier of /Eacus, born.

1030. Ceres, a woman of Sicily, in feeking her daughterwhowas ftolen, comes into Attica; and there teaches the Greeksto fow corn : for which benefacfion fhe was deified after death.She firft taught the art to Triptolemus, the young fon of Celeusking of Eleufis.

1028. Oenotrus, the young fon of Lycaon, the Janus of theLatines, led the firft colony of Greeks into Italy, and theretaught them to build houfes. Perfeus born.

1020. Arcas, the fon of Callifto and grandfon of Lycaon,and Eumelus the firft king of Achaia, receive bread-corn fromTriptolemus.

1019. Solomon reigns, and marries the daughter of Ammon,and by means of this affinity is fupplied with horfes from Egypt;and his merchants alfo bring horfes from thence for all the kingsof the Hittites and Syrians : for horfes came originally from Li-bya ; and thence Neptune was called Equejiris. Tantalus, kingof Phrygia, fteals Ganimede the fon of Tros king of Troas.

1017. Solomon, by the afliftance of the Tyrians and Aradi-am, who had mariners among them acquainted with the RedSea, fets out a fleet upon that fea. Thofe alfiftants build newcities in the Perfian Gulph, called Tyre and Aradus.

1015. The Temple of Solomon is founded. Minos reignsin Crete, expelling his father Afterius; who flees into Italy, andbecomes the Satura of the Latines. Ammon takes Gezer fromthe Canaanites, and gives it to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1014. Ammon places Cepheus at Joppa.

1010. Sefac, in the reign of his father Ammon, invades Ara-bia Foelix, and fets up pillars at the mouth of the Red Sea. Apis,Epaphus or Epopeus, the fon of Phroroneus, and Nydteus kingof Boeotia flain. Lyciis inherits the kingdom of his brotherNydteus. JEtolus, the fon of Endymion, fiies into the country ofthe Curetes in Achaia, and calls it iEtolia; and of Pronoe, thedaughter of Phorbas, begets Pleuron and Calydon; who built ci-ties