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CECROPS AND CADMUS.
185
scarcely any records, indicating that it was a time of
great adversity to the Egyptians.
It only remains for me to comment upon the accounts
transmitted to us by ancient authors of the migrations
from Egypt to Greece, which appear to have occurred
subsequently to the conclusion of the Fifteenth Dy-
nasty and before the commencement of the Eighteenth,
or not long after the latter date. I have reserved this
examination to introduce it in the present place be-
cause the dates of these successive migrations to
Greece are so doubtful, that it is impossible to assign
them to any particular periods with exactitude.
The traditions of the ancient Greeks make mention
of a great influx of foreigners into Greece during a
period extending from about the end of the seven-
teenth, to about the middle of the fifteenth, century
B.C.*; the period of Deucalion, Hellen, Cecrops, Cadmus,
and Danaus. The conclusion of the interval I place
about the middle of the fifteenth century B.C., since
that is near the latest date that has been assigned to
the coming of Danaus into Greece, the last remarkable
event of this period.
The first remarkable event of this interval was the
founding of Athens by " Cecrops the Sai'te," which is
usually referred to the middle or earlier part of the
sixteenth century B.C. He is said to have named his
city after " Athena," or Minerva, whom all allow to
have been the " Neith " of the Egyptians, the goddess
of Sais. Some say that Athens was named in later
times. I have already shown, in illustrating the his-
tory of the Fifteenth Dynasty, that Sais was probably
one of the cities of the Shepherds in the reign of one
of the later Kings of that Dynasty.
The next leader of the colonizers, who is conspicu-
CECROPS AND CADMUS.
185
scarcely any records, indicating that it was a time of
great adversity to the Egyptians.
It only remains for me to comment upon the accounts
transmitted to us by ancient authors of the migrations
from Egypt to Greece, which appear to have occurred
subsequently to the conclusion of the Fifteenth Dy-
nasty and before the commencement of the Eighteenth,
or not long after the latter date. I have reserved this
examination to introduce it in the present place be-
cause the dates of these successive migrations to
Greece are so doubtful, that it is impossible to assign
them to any particular periods with exactitude.
The traditions of the ancient Greeks make mention
of a great influx of foreigners into Greece during a
period extending from about the end of the seven-
teenth, to about the middle of the fifteenth, century
B.C.*; the period of Deucalion, Hellen, Cecrops, Cadmus,
and Danaus. The conclusion of the interval I place
about the middle of the fifteenth century B.C., since
that is near the latest date that has been assigned to
the coming of Danaus into Greece, the last remarkable
event of this period.
The first remarkable event of this interval was the
founding of Athens by " Cecrops the Sai'te," which is
usually referred to the middle or earlier part of the
sixteenth century B.C. He is said to have named his
city after " Athena," or Minerva, whom all allow to
have been the " Neith " of the Egyptians, the goddess
of Sais. Some say that Athens was named in later
times. I have already shown, in illustrating the his-
tory of the Fifteenth Dynasty, that Sais was probably
one of the cities of the Shepherds in the reign of one
of the later Kings of that Dynasty.
The next leader of the colonizers, who is conspicu-