Exile and low condition of the Herakleids.—Their reappearance as
a powerful force along with the Dorians.—Mythical account of this
alliance, as well as of the three tribes of Dorians.—Têmenus,
Kresphontês, and Aristodêmus, invade Peloponnêsus across the
gulf of Corinth.—The prophet Karnus slain by Hippotês.—Oxylus
chosen as guide.—Division of the lands of Peloponnêsus among the
invaders.—Explanatory value of these legendary events.—Mythical
title of the Dorians to Peloponnêsus.—Plato makes out a different
title for the same purpose.—Other legends respecting the Achæans
and Tisamenus.—Occupation of Argos, Sparta, and Messênia, by
the Dorians.—Dorians at Corinth—Alêtês.—Oxylus and the Ætolians
at Elis.—Rights of the Eleians to superintend the Olympic
games.—Family of Têmenus and Kresphontês lowest in the series
of subjects for the heroic drama.—Pretence of the historical
Spartan kings to Achæan origin.—Emigrations from Peloponnêsus
consequent on the Dorian occupation.—Epeians, Pylians, Achæans,
Ionians.—Ionians in the north of Peloponnêsus—not recognized
by Homer.—Date assigned by Thucydidês to the return of the
Herakleids. _pages_ 1-14
SECTION II.—_Migration of Thessalians and Bœotians._
Thessalians move from Thesprôtis into Thessaly.—Non-Hellenic
character of the Thessalians.—Bœotians—their migration
from Thessaly into Bœotia.—Discrepant legends about the
Bœotians.—Affinities between Bœotia and Thessaly.—Transition from
mythical to historical Bœotia. 14-19
SECTION III—_Emigrations from Greece to Asia and the Islands of
the Ægæan._
1. Æolic Emigration.
Secession of the mythical races of Greece.—Æolic migration under
the Pelopids. 19-21
2. Ionic Emigration.
Ionic emigration—branches off from the legendary history of
Athens.—Thêseus and Menestheus.—Restoration of the sons of
Thêseus to their father’s kingdom.—They are displaced by the
Neleids.—Melanthus and Kodrus.—Devotion and death of Kodrus.—No
more kings at Athens.—Quarrel of the sons of Kodrus, and
emigration of Neileus.—Different races who furnished the
emigrants to Iônia. 21-25
3. Doric Emigrations.
Dorian colonies in Asia.—Thêra.—Legend of the Minyæ from
Lemnos.—Minyæ in Triphylia.—Migrations of Dorians to Krete.—Story
of Andrôn.—Althæmenês, founder of Rhodes.—Kôs, Knidus, and
Karpathus. 25-31
Intervening blank between legend and history.—Difficulty
of explaining that blank, on the hypothesis of continuous
tradition.—Such an interval essentially connected with the
genesis of legend. 31-34
CHAPTER XIX.
APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND.
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