I need not repeat, what has already been sufficiently set forth in
the preceding pages, that the mass of Grecian incident anterior
to 776 B. C. appears to me not reducible either to history or to
chronology, and that any chronological system which may be applied
to it must be essentially uncertified and illusory. It was, however,
chronologized in ancient times, and has continued to be so in modern;
and the various schemes employed for this purpose may be found stated
and compared in the first volume (the last published) of Mr. Fynes
Clinton’s Fasti Hellenici. There were among the Greeks, and there
still are among modern scholars, important differences as to the
dates of the principal events:[70] Eratosthenês dissented both from
Herodotus and from Phanias and Kallimachus, while Larcher and Raoul
Rochette (who follow Herodotus) stand opposed to O. Müller and to
Mr. Clinton. That the reader may have a general conception of the
order in which these legendary events were disposed, I transcribe
from the Fasti Hellenica a double chronological table, contained in
p. 139, in which the dates are placed in series, from Phorôneus to
the Olympiad of Corœbus in B. C. 776,—in the first column according
to the system of Eratosthenês, in the second according to that of
Kallimachus.
[70] Larcher and Raoul Rochette, adopting the chronological date
of Herodotus, fix the taking of Troy at 1270 B. C., and the
Return of the Herakleids at 1190 B. C. According to the scheme of
Eratosthenês, these two events stand at 1184 and 1104 B. C.
O. Müller, in his Chronological Tables (Appendix vi. to History
of Dorians, vol ii. p. 441, Engl. transl.), gives no dates or
computation of years anterior to the Capture of Troy and the
Return of the Herakleids, which he places with Eratosthenês in
1184 and 1104 B. C.
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