Memnon the Egyptian said to invent letters, 15 years before the reign of Phoroneus 1822 The deluge of Ogyges, by which Attica remained waste above 200 years, till the coming of Cecrops 1764 Joseph sold into Egypt by his brethren 1728 The chronology of the Arundelian marbles begins about this time, fixing here the arrival of Cecrops in Attica, an epoch which other writers have placed later by 26 years 1582 Moses born 1571 The kingdom of Athens begun under Cecrops, who came from Egypt with a colony of Saites. This happened about 780 years before the first Olympiad 1556 Scamander migrates from Crete, and begins the kingdom of Troy 1546 The deluge of Deucalion in Thessaly 1503 The Panathenæa first celebrated at Athens 1495 Cadmus comes into Greece, and builds the citadel of Thebes 1493 The first Olympic games celebrated in Elis by the Idæi Dactyli 1453 The five books of Moses written in the land of Moab, where he dies the following year, aged 110 1452 Minos flourishes in Crete, and iron is found by the Dactyli by the accidental burning of the woods of Ida, in Crete 1406 The Eleusinian mysteries introduced at Athens by Eumolpus 1356 The Isthmian games first instituted by Sisyphus king of Corinth 1326 The Argonautic expedition. The first Pythian games celebrated by Adrastus king of Argos 1263 Gideon flourishes in Israel 1245 The Theban war of the seven heroes against Eteocles 1225 Olympic games celebrated by Hercules 1222 The rape of Helen by Theseus, and, 15 years after, by Paris 1213 Troy taken, after a siege of 10 years. Æneas sails to Italy 1184 Alba Longa built by Ascanius 1152 Migration of the Æolian colonies 1124 The return of the Heraclidæ into Peloponnesus, 80 years after the taking of Troy. Two years after, they divide the Peloponnesus among themselves; and here, therefore, begins the kingdom of Lacedæmon under Eurysthenes and Procles 1104 Saul made king over Israel 1095 The kingdom of Sicyon ended 1088 The kingdom of Athens ended in the death of Codrus 1070 The migration of the Ionian colonies from Greece, and their settlement in Asia Minor 1044