Pelasgus.—Lykaôn and his fifty sons.—Legend of Lykaôn—ferocity
punished by the gods.—Deep religious faith of Pausanias.—His view
of past and present world.—Kallistô and Arkas.—Azan, Apheidas,
Elatus.—Aleus, Augê, Telephus.—Ancæus.—Echemus.—Echemus
kills Hyllus.—Hêrakleids repelled from Peloponnêsus.—Korônis and
Asklêpius.—Extended worship of Asklêpius—numerous legends.—Machaôn
and Podaleirius.—Numerous Asklêpiads, or descendants from
Asklêpius.—Temples of Asklêpius—sick persons healed there. 173-183
CHAPTER X
ÆAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS.—ÆGINA, SALAMIS, AND PHTHIA.
Æakus—son of Zeus and Ægina.—Offspring of Æakus—Pêleus,
Telamôn, Phôkus.—Prayers of Æakus—procure relief for
Greece—Phôkus killed by Pêleus and Telamôn.—Telamôn, banished,
goes to Salamis.—Pêleus—goes to Phthia—his marriage with
Thetis.—Neoptolemus.—Ajax, his son Philæus the eponymous hero of
a dême in Attica.—Teukrus banished, settles in Cyprus.—Diffusion
of the Æakid genealogy. 184-190
CHAPTER XI.
ATTIC LEGENDS AND GENEALOGIES.
Erechtheus—autochthonous.—Attic legends—originally from
different roots—each dême had its own.—Little noticed by
the old epic poets.—Kekrops.—Kranaus—Pandiôn.—Daughters of
Pandiôn—Proknê, Philomêla.—Legend of Têreus.—Daughters
of Erechtheus—Prokris.—Kreüsa.—Oreithyia, the wife of
Boreas.—Prayers of the Athenians to Boreas—his gracious
help in their danger.—Erechtheus and Eumolpus.—Voluntary
self-sacrifice of the three daughters of Erechtheus.—Kreüsa
and Iôn.—Sons of Pandiôn—Ægeus, etc.—Thêseus.—His legendary
character refined.—Plutarch—his way of handling the matter
of legend.—Legend of the Amazons.—Its antiquity and
prevalence.—Glorious achievements of the Amazons.—Their
ubiquity.—Universally received as a portion of the Greek
past.—Amazons produced as present by the historians of
Alexander.—Conflict of faith and reason in the historical critics.
191-217
CHAPTER XII.
KRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.
Minôs and Rhadamanthus, sons of Zeus.—Europê.—Pasiphaê
and the Minôtaur.—Scylla and Nisus.—Death of Androgeos,
and anger of Minôs against Athens.—Athenian victims for
the Minôtaur.—Self-devotion of Thêseus—he kills the
Minôtaur.—Athenian commemorative ceremonies.—Family of
Minôs.—Minôs and Dædalus—flight of the latter to Sicily.—Minôs
goes to retake him, but is killed.—Semi-Krêtan settlements
elsewhere—connected with this voyage of Minôs.—Sufferings of the
Krêtans afterwards from the wrath of Minôs.—Portrait of Minôs—how
varied.—Affinity between Krête and Asia Minor. 218-230
CHAPTER XIII.
ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION.
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