[182] Bryant ("Mythology," ii. 254) says, "Many persons of great learning have not scrupled to determine that Noah and Janus were the same. By Plutarch he is called [Greek: Iannos], and represented as an ancient prince who reigned in the infancy of the world.... He was represented with two faces, with which he looked both forwards and backwards; and from hence he had the name of Janus Bifrons. One of these faces was that of an aged man; but in the other was often to be seen the countenance of a young and beautiful personage. About him ... many emblems.... There was particularly a _staff in one hand_, with which he pointed to a rock, from whence issued a profusion of water. In the other hand he held a key.... He had generally near him _some resemblance of a ship_.... Plutarch does not accede to the common notion" (that it was the ship that brought Saturn to Italy), "but still _makes it a question why_ the coins of this personage bore on one side the resemblance of Janus Bifrons, and on the other the representation of either the hind part or the fore part _of a ship_.... He is said to have first composed a chaplet, and to him they attributed the _invention of a ship_. Upon the Sicilian coins (at the temple) of Eryx _his_ figure often occurs with a twofold countenance, and on the reverse _is a dove_ encircled with a crown, which seems _to be of olive_. He is represented as a _just man_ and _a prophet_ (comp. pp. 207-208), and had the remarkable characteristics of being in a manner the author of time and the god of the year." But not only were Saturn, Janus, and Bacchus represented as "bifrons," but so also was Cecrops. Cecrops will present a difficulty the more in the way of any solar theory; but Cecrops,[183] like all founders or supposed founders of states, has something in common with Noah. Like Saturn and Janus in Italy, Cecrops was said to have brought the population of Attica into cities, to have given them laws, taught them the worship of the idols, _planted the olive_, and finally, was represented as half man, half serpent.[184]