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 iv CONTENTS. SBCTICN 111 En iyralions from Greece to Aiic. and lite Islands of At 1. JEolic Eirigration. Secession of the mythical races of Greece. _?Eolic migration under tin Pelopids ................................................. 19-81 2. Ionic Emigration. Ionic emigration branches off from the legendary history of Athens. Theseus and Menestheus. Restoration of the sons of Theseus to their father's kingdom. They are displaced by the Neleids. Melanthus and Kodrus. Devotion and death of Kodrus. No more kings at Athens. Quarrel of the sons of Kodrus, and emigration of Neileus. Different races who furnished the emigrants to Ionia 21-25 3. Doric Emigrations. Dorian colonies in Asia. Thera. Legend of the Minyre from Lemnos. Minyse in Triphylia. Migrations of Dorians to Krcte. Story of Andron. AlthaemenCs, founder of Rhodes. Kos, Knidus. and Karpa- thus 25-31 Intervening blank between legend and history. Difficulty of explaining that blank, on the hypothesis of continuous tradition. Such an interval essentially connected with the genesis of legend 31-34 CHAPTER XIX. APPLICATION OF CHRONOLOGY TO GRECIAN LEGEND. The data dcrn chro- Different schemes of chronology proposed for the mythical events. essential to chronological determination arc here wanting. Moc _ nologists take up the same problem as ancient, but with a different canon of belief. Mr. Clinton's opinion on the computations of the date of the Trojan war. Value of the chronological computations depends on the trustworthiness of the genealogies. Mr. Clinton's vindication of the genealogies his proofs. 1. Inscriptions none of proved antiquity. Genealogies numerous, and of unasccrtainable date. 2. Early poets. Mr. Clinton's separation of the genealogical persons into real and fabu- lous: principles on which it is founded. Remarks on his opinion. His concessions are partial and inconsistent, yet sufficient to render the genealogies inapplicable for chronology. Mr. Clinton's positions respect- ing historical evidence. To what extent presumption may stand in