IDENTIFIED IN THE MYTH OF ADONIS. 37 



Cecrops brought from Sais,''* but Ereehtbeus/* Petes, and even Menes - 

 tbeus, his son, who led tbe Athenians in the Trojan war, are made 

 Egyptians ; ^^ while Sais, with its tutelary divinity, Neith, is made the 

 abode of the original Athene.^^ The Argive line, commencing with 

 lo, who gives birth in Egypt to Epaphus, a purely Egyptian name,^^ and 

 including Danaus and Aegyptus, Lynceus, and even Perseus, all natives 

 of Chemmis,^^ is thoroughly Egyptian. The people of Lacouia and 

 Megaris connect with this ancient land in Lelex.^* Orpheus and 

 Homer, who make such frequent allusions to Egypt, are said to have 

 learned wisdom on the banks of the Nile,^° whence came the Orphic 

 mysteries.^^ Many arts and sciences cultivated among the Glreeks have 

 the same origin assigned them.^^ From Egypt Herodotus derives the 

 Grecian amour; ''^ and the scenes of many well-known fabulous narra- 

 tives, such as that of Prometheus, are placed in that country.^^ 



Greece and Phcenicia. — With* Phoenicia we may include the whole 

 sea-coast of Palestine, inhabited by a homogeneous people. At Paltus, 

 we are told, Memnon lies buried.^* From Sidon, Cadmus carried Phoe- 

 nician letters to Greece,^® and there Paris stopped with Helen on their 

 way to Troy from Lacedsemon." In Accho, Herculus was bitten by a 

 serpeut.^^ To Dora Mazocchi assigns the origin of the Dorian raee.^^ 

 The great battle of Perseus with the sea monster, almost all geographers 

 are agreed in placing near Joppa.^^ Even Ascalon was founded by a 

 brother of Tantalus, the father of Pelops,*" although the Lydian narra- 

 tive ascribes its foundation to a general of Alcimus of Lydia,''^ and the 



23 Theopompus ap. Euseb. Prep. Ev. L. x, c. 10 ; Proclus ap. Tim. Plat., Diod. Sic. i, 16 ; 

 Cedreiius, J. Tzetzes, Suidas, &e. 



2* 23 Diod. Sic. L. i, S. i, e. 16. 



S" Lycophron, v. 3, Scliol. ; Guigniaut ii, 719, &c. 



-^ Herod, ii, 153, iii, 27 : "Apis is tlie god wliom the Greelcs call Epaphus." Epaphus must 

 connect with Apophis, the type of evil in Egypt, and the name of the Shepherd King, who 

 reigned nearly 100 years. 



23 Herod, ii, 91, \'i, 53 ; Diod. Sic. i, 16, &c. 



20 Pausanias, i, p. 95. 



30 31 Diod. Sic. L. i, S. ii, c. 36 ; Herod, ii, SI. 



32 Zonaras, quoted by Bryant in his ^Uialysis, &c., vol. i, p. 22. 



33 Herod, iv, ISO. 



31 Diod. Sic. L. i, S. i, c. 9. 



35 Simonides ap. Strab. L. xv, c. 3, ^ 3. 



36 Euseb. Chronic, ap. Usserii Annal. Vet. Test. ; Banier, iii, 71, &e. 



37 Homer's Iliad, vi, 290 ; Vid. Herodot. ii, 116. 



38 Stephanus Byzant. Ptolemais. 



38* Anthon's Classical Dictionary Art. Paestum. 



39 Strabo, L. i, c. 2, T[ 36; Pomp. Mela, L. i, c. 11 ; Pli:iy, ix, 5; Solinus, xxxiv, 1, 

 *" Steph. Byz. Ascalou. 



*i Xanthus ap. Steph. Byz. Ascalon. 



