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Updated: April 30, 2025
Neither Cecrops nor any other Egyptian in those ages is recorded to have founded a dynasty in Attica it is clear that none established a different language and all the boasted analogies of religion fade, on a close examination, into an occasional resemblance between the symbols and attributes of Egyptian and Grecian deities, or a similarity in mystic ceremonies and solemn institutions, which, for the most part, was almost indisputably formed by intercourse between Greece and Egypt in a far later age.
So the gods assembled, in the presence of Cecrops himself, on the "hill of Erechtheus" afterward known as the Athenian Acropolis to witness the trial between the rival deities, as described in the following language. First; Neptune strikes the rock with his trident: Lo! at the touch of his trident a wonder!
When Cecrops saw the two strangers coming into the market place, he stood up and waited for them to speak. The man spoke first: "I am Neptune," said he, "and I rule the sea." "And I am Athena," said the woman, "and I give wisdom to men." "I hear that you are planning to make your town become a great city," said Neptune, "and I have come to help you.
For amid the realms Begot of Egypt, many a mighty tract Of ether traversed, many a flood o'erpassed, At length here fixed it; o'er the hapless realm Of Cecrops hovering, and the astonished race Dooming by thousands to disease and death.
Of the history of Athens for many centuries subsequent to its alleged founding by Cecrops we have no certain information; but it is probable that down to about 683 B.C. it was ruled by kings, like all the other Grecian states. Of these kings the names of The'seus and Co'drus are the most noted.
Although Cecrops is said to have brought the tribes of Attica under one government, yet it will be remembered that he had divided the territory into twelve districts, with a fortress or capital to each.
You know the kind of thing on the stage tragic actors shifting as the play requires from Creon to Priam, from Priam to Agamemnon; the same man, very likely, whom you saw just now in all the majesty of Cecrops or Erechtheus, treads the boards next as a slave, because the author tells him to.
And AEgeus stepped back a pace, and looked at the lad till his eyes grew dim; and then he cast himself on his neck and wept, and Theseus wept on his neck, till they had no strength left to weep more. Then AEgeus turned to all the people, and cried, 'Behold my son, children of Cecrops, a better man than his father was before him.
Athens was her chosen seat, her own city, awarded to her as the prize of a contest with Neptune, who also aspired to it. The tale ran that in the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to that one who produced the gift most useful to mortals. Neptune gave the horse; Minerva produced the olive.
On the doors is Androgeus' death; thereby the children of Cecrops, bidden, ah me! to pay for yearly ransom seven souls of their sons; the urn stands there, and the lots are drawn. Thou too hadst no slight part in the work he wrought, O Icarus, did grief allow. Twice had he essayed to portray thy fate in gold; twice the father's hands dropped down.
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