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 BLANK PERIOD WHICH 5TJOCEEDW. 31 other Dorian colonists afterwards, are reported to have settled at Kos, Knidus, Karpathus, and Halikarnassus. To the last men- tioned city, however, Anthes of Trcszen is assigned as the oekist : the emigrants who accompanied him were said to have belonged to the Dymanian tribe, one of the three tribes always found in a Doric state : and the city seems to have been characterized as a colony sometimes of Trcezen, sometimes of Argos. 1 We thus have the ^Eolic, the Ionic, and the Doric colonial e tablishments in Asia, all springing out of the legendary age, and all set forth as consequences, direct or indirect, of what is called the Return of the Herakleids, or the Dorian conquest of Pelo- ponnesus. According to the received chronology, they are suc- ceeded by a period, supposed to comprise nearly three centuries, which is almost an entire blank, before we reach authentic chro- nology and the first recorded Olympiad, and they thus form the concluding events of the mythical world, out of which we now pass into historical Greece, such as it stands at the last- mentioned epoch. It is by these migrations that the parts of the Hellenic aggregate are distributed into the places which they oc- cupy at the dawn of historical daylight, Dorians, Arcadians, yEtolo-Eleians, and Achaeans, sharing Peloponnesus unequally among them, JEolians, lonians, and Dorians, settled both in the islands of the JEgean and the coast of Asia Minor. The Return of the Herakleids, as well as the three emigrations, JEolic, Ionic, and Doric, present the legendary explanation, suitable to the feelings and belief of the people, showing how this, Diodorus had made express reference to native Rhodian mythologists, to one in particular, named Zeno (c. 57). "Wesseling supposes two different settlers in Rhodes, both named Althae- menes : this is certainly necessary, if we are to treat the two narratives as historical. 1 Strabo, xiv, p. 653 ; Pausan. ii. 39, 3 ; Kallimachas apud Stephan. Byz. V. 'A.%.iKapvaaac(. Herodotus (vii. 99} calls Halikarnassus a colony of Trcezen ; Pomponiua Mela (i 16,) of Argos. Vitruvius names both Argos and Trcezen (ii. 8, 12) ; but the two cekists whom he mentions, Melas and Arevanius, were not so well known as Anthes ; the inhabitants of Halikarnassus being called An- theadce (see Stephan. Byz. v. 'A&r/vai ; and a carious inscription in Bceckh'l Corpus Inscriptionum, No. 2655).