Miscellanies 1.21.103

Following Acusilaus, Plato writes in the Timaeus: “And once, wishing to lead them on to talk about ancient things, he tried to tell the most ancient things of this city, about Phoroneus, who was called the first, and Niobe, and what happened after the flood.” In the time of Phorbas was Actaeus, from whom Attica was called Actaea. In the time of Triopas were Prometheus, Atlas, Epimetheus, Cecrops the two-natured, and Io. In the time of Crotopus, the conflagration under Phaethon and the deluge under Deucalion. In the time of Sthenelus, the reign of Amphictyon, the coming of Danaus to the Peloponnese, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, “whom first,” says Homer, “cloud-gathering Zeus begot,” and the carrying of Europa from Phoenicia to Crete. In the time of Lynceus, the rape of the Maiden, the founding of the precinct at Eleusis, the agriculture of Triptolemus, the coming of Cadmus to Thebes, and the reign of Minos. In the time of Proetus, the war of Eumolpus against the Athenians. In the time of Acrisius, the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, the arrival of Ion at Athens, the second Cecrops, the deeds of Perseus and Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.