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Ardalus of Troezcn instituted singing to the flute. 

 The Curetes taught dancing in armour, Pyrrhus the 

 Pyrrhic dance ; both of there were in Crete. Hexa- 

 meter verse we owe to the Pythian oracle, but as 

 to the origin of poetry there is much debate, t.hough 

 it is pro\ed to have existed before the Troj^m War. 

 Pherecydes of Syria instituted prose composition in 

 the period of King Cyrus, Cadmus of Miletus history ; 

 gT,'ninastic games were started by Lycaon in Arcadia, 

 funeral games by Acastus in lolcus, and subsequently 

 by Theseus at the Istimius and by Hercules at 

 Olympia ; \vresthng by Pytheus, the sport of ball- 

 throwing by Gyges of Lydia ; painting by the 

 Egyptians, and in Greece by Euchir the kinsman of 

 Daedalus according to Aristotle, but according to 

 Theophrastus by Polygnotus of Athens. 



Danaus first came from Egypt to Greece by ship ; Navigation, 

 before that time rafts were used for navigation, oj.'^"^'"* 

 having been invented by King Eiythras for use 

 between the islands in the Red Sea. Persons are 

 tound who tliink that vessels were devised earher on 

 the Hellespont by the Mysians and Trojans when they 

 crossed to war against the Thracians. Even now in 

 the British ocean coracles are made of wicker with 

 hide sown round it, and on the Nile canoes are made 

 of papyrus, rushes and reeds. The first voyage made 

 in a long ship is attributed by Philostephanus to 

 Jason, by Hegesias to Parhalus, by Ctesias to 

 Samiramis, and by Archemachus to Aegaeo. Further 

 advances were as follows : — 



Vessel Inventor AutJwnty 



double-banked galley the Erythraeans Damastes 



trireme Aminocles of Thucydides 



Corinth 



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