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Accordingly, they confute one another in their own books to purpose, and are not ashamed. to give us the most contradictory accounts of the same things; and I should spend my time to little purpose, if I should pretend to teach the Greeks that which they know better than I already, what a great disagreement there is between Hellanicus and Acusilaus about their genealogies; in how many eases Acusilaus corrects Hesiod: or after what manner Ephorus demonstrates Hellanicus to have told lies in the greatest part of his history; as does Timeus in like manner as to Ephorus, and the succeeding writers do to Timeus, and all the later writers do to Herodotus nor could Timeus agree with Antiochus and Philistius, or with Callias, about the Sicilian History, no more than do the several writers of the Athide follow one another about the Athenian affairs; nor do the historians the like, that wrote the Argolics, about the affairs of the Argives.
Now I have for witnesses to what I have said, all those that have written Antiquities, both among the Greeks and barbarians; for even Manetho, who wrote the Egyptian History, and Berosus, who collected the Chaldean Monuments, and Mochus, and Hestieus, and, besides these, Hieronymus the Egyptian, and those who composed the Phoenician History, agree to what I here say: Hesiod also, and Hecatseus, Hellanicus, and Acusilaus; and, besides these, Ephorus and Nicolaus relate that the ancients lived a thousand years.
In other words, after Chaos, the Earth and Love, these two, came into being. Also Parmenides sings of Generation: 'First in the train of gods, he fashioned Love. And Acusilaus agrees with Hesiod. Thus numerous are the witnesses who acknowledge Love to be the eldest of the gods. And not only is he the eldest, he is also the source of the greatest benefits to us.
First, the Artificial Greatness of Athens not supported by Natural Strength. Secondly, her pernicious Reliance on Tribute. Fourthly, Defects in Popular Courts of Law. Progress of General Education. History. Its Ionian Origin. Early Historians. Acusilaus. Cadmus. Eugeon. Hellanicus. Pherecides. Xanthus. View of the Life and Writings of Herodotus. Progress of Philosophy since Thales.
As for those who set themselves about writing their histories, I mean such as Cadmus of Miletus, and Acusilaus of Argos, and any others that may be mentioned as succeeding Acusilaus, they lived but a little while before the Persian expedition into Greece.
Thus genealogies, and accounts of the origin of states and deities, made the first subjects of history, and inspired the Argive Acusilaus , and, as far as we can plausibly conjecture, the Milesian Cadmus.
Fourthly, Defects in Popular Courts of Law. Progress of General Education. History. Its Ionian Origin. Early Historians. Acusilaus. Cadmus. Eugeon. Hellanicus. Pherecides. Xanthus. View of the Life and Writings of Herodotus. Progress of Philosophy since Thales. Philosophers of the Ionian and Eleatic Schools. Pythagoras. His Philosophical Tenets and Political Influence.
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