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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936. _Theseus_ is set at liberty by _Hercules_.
934. The hunting of the _Calydonian_ boar slain by _Meleager_. 930. _Amenophis_, with an army out of _Ethiopia_ and _Thebais_, invades the lower _Egypt_, conquers _Osarsiphus_, and drives out the _Jews_ and _Canaanites_: and this is reckoned the second expulsion of the Shepherds. _Calycopis_ dies, and is Deified by _Thoas_ with Temples at _Paphos_ and _Amathus_ in _Cyprus_, and at _Byblus_ in _Syria_, and with Priests and sacred Rites, and becomes the _Venus_ of the ancients, and the _Dea Cypria_ and _Dea Syria_. And from these and other places where Temples were erected to her, she was also called _Paphia_, _Amathusia_, _Byblia_, _Cytherea_, _Salaminia_, _Cnidia_, _Erycina_, _Idalia_, &c. And her three waiting-women became the three Graces. 928. The war of the seven Captains against _Thebes_. 927. _Hercules_ and _Ãsculapius_ are Deified. _Eurystheus_ drives the _Heraclides_ out of _Peloponnesus_. He is slain by _Hyllus_ the son of _Hercules_. _Atreus_ the son of _Pelops_ succeeds him in the Kingdom of _Mycenæ_. _Menestheus_, the great grandson of _Erechtheus_, Reigns at _Athens_. 925. _Theseus_ is slain, being cast down from a rock. 924. _Hyllus_ invading _Peloponnesus_ is slain by _Echemus_. 919. _Atreus_ dies. _Agamemnon_ Reigns. In the absence of _Menelaus_, who went to look after what his father _Atreus_ had left to him, _Paris_ steals _Helena_. |
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