[2]Euhemerus (_circa_ second half of the fourth century B.C.) attempted a rationalistic explanation of the mythology prevailing in his time. The theory he propounded, in his novel of travel, _Sacred History_, was simply an extension of the current skeptical-scientific attitude to matters which until that time had been accepted without question. That theory was that the gods were merely men who because of their great exploits or beneficence had been accorded divine honors. In Crete, coming upon the remains of a tomb bearing the name of Zeus, Euhemerus argued that even Zeus had probably been no more than a great conqueror, who died and was buried in Crete, and afterwards deified. This creditable anthropological attempt to historicize mythology, though it failed to convince, is nevertheless worthy of great respect. As A. B. Cook wrote, if Euhemerus said that Zeus was a Cretan king when he ought to have said that Cretan kings played the part of Zeus, it is a pardonable error. (_Zeus_, I, 662.) [3]“Saved by a Porpoise,” _Natural History_, LVIII (1949), 385-386. [4]Winthrop N. Kellogg, _Porpoises and Sonar_, University of Chicago Press, 1962, p. 14. [5]George G. Goodwin, “Porpoise—Friend of Man?” _Natural History_, LVI (1947), 337. [6]F. Bruce Lamb, “The Fisherman’s Porpoise,” _Natural History_, LXIII (1954), 231-2. REFERENCES Aelian. _On the Characteristics of Animals._ Bk. VI, 15. Aesop. _Fables._ “The Monkey and the Dolphin.” Alpers, Antony. _Dolphins: the Myth and the Mammal._ Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Anderson, John. _Anatomical and Zoological Researches: Comprising an Account of the Zoological Results of the Two Expeditions to Western Yunnan._ London: Bernard Quaritch, 1878. Apollodorus. _The Library._ III, 5, 3. Apostolides, Nicholas. _La Pêche en Grèce._ Athens, 1907. Aristotle. _History of Animals._ Bk. I, 5; II, 1, 13, 15; III, 1, 7, 20; IV, 8-10; V, 5; VI, 12; VIII, 2, 13; IX, 48. Biedermann, Paul. _Der Delphin in der dichtenden und bildenden Phantasie der Griechen und Roemer._ Halle, 1881. Cook, Arthur B. _Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion._ Cambridge, Eng.: The University Press, 1914, vol. 1, p. 662. Douglas, Norman. _Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology._ London: Chapman and Hall, 1928, p. 161. Euhemerus. _Sacred History._ Fairholme, J. K. E. “The Blacks of Moreton Bay, and the Porpoises,” _Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London_, XXIV (1856), 353-354. Goodwin, George G. “Porpoise—Friend of Man?” _Natural History_, LVI (1947), 337. _The Greek Anthology._ Herodotos. _History._ Clio I, 23-24. Hill, Ralph N. _Window in the Sea._ New York: Rinehart, 1956. Kellogg, Winthrop N. _Porpoises and Sonar._ Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Klement, Carl. _Arion._ Vienna, 1898. Lamb, F. Bruce.