grandson _Idomeneus_ who warred at _Troy_. _Hesiod_ tells us that he himself lived in the fifth Age, the Age next after the taking of _Troy_, and therefore he flourished within thirty or thirty five years after it: and _Homer_ was of about the same Age; for he [192] lived sometime with _Mentor_ in _Ithaca_, and there learnt of him many things concerning _Ulysses_, with whom _Mentor_ had been personally acquainted: now _Herodotus_, the oldest Historian of the _Greeks_ now extant, [193] tells us that _Hesiod_ and _Homer_ were not above four hundred years older than himself, and therefore they flourished within 110 or 120 years after the death of _Solomon_; and according to my reckoning the taking of _Troy_ was but one Generation earlier. Mythologists tell us, that _Niobe_ the daughter of _Phoroneus_ was the first woman with whom _Jupiter_ lay, and that of her he begat _Argus_, who succeeded _Phoroneus_ in the Kingdom of _Argos_, and gave his name to that city; and therefore _Argus_ was born in the beginning of the Silver Age: unless you had rather say that by _Jupiter_ they might here mean _Asterius_; for the _Phœnicians_ gave the name of _Jupiter_ to every King, from the time of their first coming into _Greece_ with _Cadmus_ and _Europa_, until the invasion of _Greece_ by _Sesostris_, and the birth of _Hercules_, and particularly to the fathers of _Minos_, _Pelops_, _Lacedæmon_, _Æacus_, and _Perseus_. The four first Ages succeeded the flood of _Deucalion_; and some tell us that _Deucalion_ was the son of _Prometheus_, the son of _Japetus_, and brother of _Atlas_: but this was another _Deucalion_; for _Japetus_ the father of _Prometheus_, _Epimetheus,_ and _Atlas_, was an _Egyptian_, the brother of _Osiris_, and flourished two generations after the flood of _Deucalion_.