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 HELLEN AND fflS SONS. 99 mit of their mountain Geraneia, which had not been completely submerged. And in the magnificent temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, a cavity in the earth was shown, through which it was affirmed that the waters of the deluge had retired. Even in the time of Pausanias, the priests poured into this cavity holy offerings of meal and honey. 1 In this, as in other parts of Greece, the idea of the Deukalionian deluge was blended with the reli- gious impressions of the people and commemorated by their sa- cred ceremonies. The offspring of Deukalion and Pyrrha were two sons, Hellen and Amphiktyon, and a daughter, Protogeneia, whose son by Zeus was Aethlius : it was however maintained by many, that Hellen was the son of Zeus and not of Deukalion. Hellen had by a nymph three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and JEolus. He gave to those who had been before called Greeks, 2 the name of Hel- lenes, and partitioned his terrritory among his three children. JEolus reigned in Thessaly ; Xuthus received Peloponnesus, and had by Creiisa as his sons, Achaeus and Ion ; while Dorus occupied the country lying opposite to the Peloponnesus, on the northern side of the Corinthian Gulf. These three gave to the inhabitants of their respective countries the names of .^Eolians, Achasans and lonians, and Dorians. 3 Such is the genealogy as we find it in Apollodorus. In so far as the names and filiation are concerned, many points in it are given differently, or implicitly contradicted, by Euripides and other writers. Though as literal and personal history it deserves 1 Pausan. i. 18, 7 ; 40, 1. According to the Parian marble (s. 5), Deuka- lion had come to Athens after the deluge, and had there himself founded the temple of the Olympian Zeus. The etymology and allegorization of the names of Deukalion and Pyrrha, given by Volcker in his ingenious Mytho- logie des lapetischen Geschlechts (Giessen, 1824). p. 343, appears to me not at all convincing. 2 Such is the statement of Apollodorus (i. 7, 3) ; but I cannot bring my- self to believe that the name (TpcuKol) Greeks is at all old in the legend, or that the passage of Hesiod, in which Graecus and Latims purport to be mentioned, is genuine. See Hesiod, Theogon. 1013. and Catalog. Fragm. xxix. ed. Gottling with the note of Gottling ; also Wachsmuth, Hellen. Alterth. i. 1. p. 311, aad llernharuy, Griech, Litcrat. vol. i. p. 167. 3 Apollod. i. 7, 4.