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 EARLIEST HISTORICAL VIEW OF PELOPOXtfESUS. 303 Herakleid brothers to whom the conqiest of the peninsula is ascribed : Line of Eurysthen is.
 * d 42 years.

31 " 35 " 37 " 29 " 44 " 60 <; 40 ' " 10 " Line of ProTdCs. ProkleS rpio-nf- I 51 yeara 49 " 45 " 60 " 38 " 10 " Sous (i, Eurvpon . . u u Prytanis.

... " n ii Archelaus

II Telcklus u Theopompus. . " Alkamenes . ..

328 Both Theopompus and Alkamenes reigned considerably longer, but the chronologists affirm that the year 776 B. c. (or the first Olympiad) occurred in the tenth year of each of their reigns. It is necessary to add, with regard to this list, that there are some material discrepancies between different authors even as to the names of individual kings, and still more as to the duration of their reigns, as may be seen both in Mr. Clinton's chronology and in Muller's Appendix to the History of the Dorians. 1 The alleged sum total cannot be made to agree with the items without great license of conjecture. O. Miiller observes, 2 in reference to this Alexandrine chronology, " that our materials only enable us to restore it to its original state, not to verify its correctness." 1 Herodotus omits Sous between Prokles and Eurypon, and inserts Poly- dektcs between Prytanis and Eunomus : moreover, the accounts of the Lacedaemonians, as he states them, represented Lykurgus, the law-giver, as uncle and guardian of Labotas, of the Eurysthenid house, while Simonides made him son of Prytanis, and others made him son of Eunomus, of the Proklid line: compare Herod, i. 65 ; viii. 131. Plutarch, Lycurg. c. 2. Some excellent remarks on this early series of Spartan kings will be found in Mr. G. C. Lewis's article in the Philological Museum, vol. ii. pp. 42-48, in a review of Dr. Arnold on the Spartan Constitution. Compare also Larcher, Chronologic d'Herodote, ch. 13, pp. 484-514. Ha lengthens manv of the reigns considerably, in order to suit the earlier epoch which he assigns to the capture of Troy and the Return of the Hcrakleid*. . ii. 20oc.
 * History of the Dorians, vol. ii. Append, p. 442.