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 OLUS, DOKUS, AND XUTHUS. 101 Achaia Phthiotis. But as it is recognized in the Hesiodic Cata- logue 1 composed probably within the first century after tha commencement of recorded Olympiads, or before 676 B. c. the peculiarities of it, dating from so early a period, deserve much attention. We may remark, first, that it seems to exhibit to us Dorus and JEolus as the only pure and genuine offspring of Hel- len. For their brother Xuthus is not enrolled as an eponymus ; he neither founds nor names any people ; it is only his sons Achseus and Ion, after his blood has been mingled with that of the Erechtheid Kreiisa, who become eponyms and founders, each of his own separate people. Next, as to the territorial distribution, Xuthus receives Peloponnesus from his father, and unites him- self with Attica (which the author of this genealogy seems to have conceived as originally unconnected with Hellen) by his marriage with the daughter of the indigenous hero, Erechtheus. The issue of this marriage, Achaeus and Ion, present to us the population of Peloponnesus and Attica conjointly as related among themselves by the tie of brotherhood, but as one degree more distant both from Dorians and JEolians. JEolus reigns over the regions about Thessaly, and called the people in those parts .ZEolians ; while Dorus occupies " the country over against Pelo- ponnesus on the opposite side of the Corinthian Gulf," and calls the inhabitants after himself, Dorians. 2 It is at once evident that 1 Hcsiod, Fragm. 8. p. 278, ed. Marktsch. "E/U.T/vof of aloha pj toAof. AVTOS JJ.EV ol'v aft avrov rove KaXovfievov^ Tpainoiic irpo f, rolf de xaloiv epeptoe TT/V ^upav. Kat SoCi^of pev %a(3uv riji> ov, K Kpeovffrjf rr/g 'Epe^iJewf 'A^atov i-yevvjjcre ical "lava, u(j>' uv 'A^atot ical 'luvef KaAovvrat. Awpof 6e, ri)v irepav x&pav IleAo- Trovvfj a ov Aa/3wv,rovf /carot/covf u' kavrov AwpteZf k KU- estv . AtoAof (5e, paaifai-uv TIJV nepl Qerra^iav TOKUV, roiif evot/coCvretf AtoAetf irpoarjyopevae. Strabo (viii. p. 383) and Conon (Narr. 27), who evidently copy from the ame source, represent Dorus as going to settle in the territory property known as Doris. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVFRSiDF
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