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 by Isaac Newton
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expelling his father _Asterius_, who flees into _Italy_, and becomes the
_Saturn_ of the _Latines_. _Ammon_ takes _Gezer_ from the _Canaanites_, and gives it to his daughter, _Solomon's_ wife. 1014. _Ammon_ places _Cepheus_ at _Joppa_. 1010. _Sesac_ in the Reign of his father _Ammon_ invades _Arabia FÅlix_, and sets up pillars at the mouth of the _Red Sea_. _Apis_, _Epaphus_ or _Epopeus_, the son of _Phroroneus_, and _Nycteus_ King of _BÅotia_, slain. _Lycus_ inherits the Kingdom of his brother _Nycteus_. _Ãtolus_ the son of _Endymion_ flies into the Country of the _Curetes_ in _Achaia_, and calls it _Ãtolia_; and of _Pronoe_ the daughter of _Phorbas_ begets _Pleuron_ and _Calydon_, who built cities in _Ãtolia_ called by their own names. _Antiopa_ the daughter of _Nycteus_ is sent home to _Lycus_ by _Lamedon_ the successor of _Apis_, and in the way brings forth _Amphion_ and _Zethus_. 1008. _Sesac_, in the Reign of his father _Ammon_, invades _Afric_ and _Spain_, and sets up pillars in all his conquests, and particularly at the mouth of the _Mediterranean_, and returns home by the coast of _Gaul_ and _Italy_. 1007. _Ceres_ being dead _Eumolpus_ institutes her Mysteries in _Eleusine_. The Mysteries of _Rhea_ are instituted in _Phrygia_, in the city _Cybele_. About this time Temples begin to be built in _Greece_. _Hyagnis_ the _Phrygian_ invents the pipe. After the example of the common-council of the five Lords of the _Philistims_, the _Greeks_ set up the _Amphictyonic_ Council, first at _Thermopylæ_, by the influence of _Amphictyon_ the son of _Deucalion_; and a few years after at _Delphi_ by the influence of _Acrisius_. Among the cites, whose deputies met at _Thermopylæ_, I do not |
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