_Pausanias_ [38] represents that _Melas_ the son of _Antissus_, of the posterity of _Gonussa_ the daughter of _Sicyon_, was not above six Generations older than _Cypselus_ King of _Corinth_; and that he was contemporary to _Aletes_, who returned with the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_. The Reign of _Cypselus_ began _An._ 2, Olymp. 31, according to Chronologers; and six Generations, at about 30 years to a Generation, amount unto 180 years. Count those years backwards from _An._ 2, Olymp. 31, and they will place the Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_ 58 years before the first Olympiad. But it might not be so early, if the Reign of _Cypselus_ began three or four Olympiads later; for he reigned before the _Persian_ Empire began. _Hercules_ the _Argonaut_ was the father of _Hyllus_; the father of _Cleodius_; the father of _Aristomachus_; the father of _Temenus_, _Cresphontes_, and _Aristodemus_, who led the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_ and _Eurystheus_, who was of the same age with _Hercules_, was slain in the first attempt of the _Heraclides_ to return: _Hyllus_ was slain in the second attempt, _Cleodius_ in the third attempt, _Aristomachus_ in the fourth attempt, and _Aristodemus_ died as soon as they were returned, and left the Kingdom of _Sparta_ to his sons _Eurysthenes_ and _Procles_. Whence their Return was four Generations later than the _Argonautic_ expedition: And these Generations were short ones, being by the chief of the family, and suit with the reckoning of _Thucydides_ and the Ancients, that the taking of _Troy_ was about 75 or eighty years before the return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_; and the _Argonautic_ expedition one Generation earlier than the taking of _Troy_. Count therefore eighty years backward from the Return of the _Heraclides_ into _Peloponnesus_ to the _Trojan_ war, and the taking of _Troy_ will be about 76 years after the death of _Solomon_: And the _Argonautic_ expedition, which was one Generation earlier, will be about 43 years after it. From the taking of _Troy_ to the Return of the _Heraclides_, could scarce be more than eighty years, because _Orestes_ the son of _Agamemnon_ was a youth at the taking of _Troy_, and his sons _Penthilus_ and _Tisamenus_ lived till the Return of the _Heraclides_.