958. _Oedipus_ kills his father _Laius_. _Sthenelus_ the son of _Perseus_ Reigns in _Mycene_. 956. _Sesac_ is slain by his brother _Japetus_, who after death was deified in _Afric_ by the name of _Neptune_, and called _Typhon_ by the _Egyptians_. _Orus_ Reigns and routs the _Libyans_, who under the conduct of _Japetus_, and his Son _Antæus_ or _Atlas_, invaded _Egypt_. _Sesac_ from his making the river _Nile_ useful, by cutting channels from it to all the cities of _Egypt_, was called by its names, _Sihor_ or _Siris_, _Nilus_ and _Egyptus_. The _Greeks_ hearing the _Egyptians_ lament, _O Siris_ and _Bou Siris_, called him _Osiris_ and _Busiris_. The _Arabians_ from his great acts called him _Bacchus_, that is, the Great. The _Phrygians_ called him _Ma-fors_ or _Mavors_, the valiant, and by contraction _Mars_. Because he set up pillars in all his conquests, and his army in his father's Reign fought against the _Africans_ with clubs, he is painted with pillars and a club: and this is that _Hercules_ who, according to _Cicero_, was born upon the _Nile_, and according to _Eudoxus_, was slain by _Typhon_; and according to _Diodorus_, was an _Egyptian_, and went over a great part of the world, and set up the pillars in _Afric_. He seems to be also the _Belus_ who, according to _Diodorus_, led a Colony of _Egyptians_ to _Babylon_, and there instituted Priests called _Chaldeans_, who were free from taxes, and observed the stars, as in _Egypt_. Hitherto _Judah_ and _Israel_ laboured under great vexations, but henceforward _Asa_ King of _Judah_ had peace ten years. 947. The _Ethiopians_ invade _Egypt_, and drown _Orus_ in the _Nile_. Thereupon _Bubaste_ the sister of _Orus_ kills herself, by falling from the top of an house, and their mother _Isis_ or _Astræa_ goes mad: and thus ended the Reign of the Gods of _Egypt_. 946. _Zerah_ the _Ethiopian_ is overthrown by _Asa_. The people of the lower _Egypt_ make _Osarsiphus_ their King, and call in two hundred thousand _Jews_ and _Phœnicians_ against the _Ethiopians_. _Menes_ or _Amenophis_ the young son of _Zerah_ and _Cissia_ Reigns. 944. The _Ethiopians_, under _Amenophis_, retire from the lower _Egypt_ and fortify _Memphis_ against _Osarsiphus_. And by these wars and the _Argonautic_ expedition, the great Empire of _Egypt_ breaks in pieces. _Eurystheus_ the son of _Sthenelus_ Reigns in _Mycenæ_. 943. _Evander_ and his mother _Carmenta_ carry Letters into _Italy_. 942. _Orpheus_ Deifies the son of _Semele_ by the name of _Bacchus_, and appoints his Ceremonies. 940. The great men of _Greece_, hearing of the civil wars and distractions of _Egypt_, resolve to send an embassy to the nations, upon the _Euxine_ and _Mediterranean_ Seas, subject to that Empire, and for that end order the building of the ship _Argo_.