CHAPTER XVIII.

CLOSING EVENTS OF LEGENDARY GREECE.—PERIOD OF INTERMEDIATE DARKNESS, BEFORE THE DAWN OF HISTORICAL GREECE.

SECTION I.—_Return of the Herakleids into Peloponnêsus._

Exile and low condition of the Herakleids.—Their reappearance as a powerful force along with the Dorians.—Mythical account of this alliance, as well as of the three tribes of Dorians.—Têmenus, Kresphontês, and Aristodêmus, invade Peloponnêsus across the gulf of Corinth.—The prophet Karnus slain by Hippotês.—Oxylus chosen as guide.—Division of the lands of Peloponnêsus among the invaders.—Explanatory value of these legendary events.—Mythical title of the Dorians to Peloponnêsus.—Plato makes out a different title for the same purpose.—Other legends respecting the Achæans and Tisamenus.—Occupation of Argos, Sparta, and Messênia, by the Dorians.—Dorians at Corinth—Alêtês.—Oxylus and the Ætolians at Elis.—Rights of the Eleians to superintend the Olympic games.—Family of Têmenus and Kresphontês lowest in the series of subjects for the heroic drama.—Pretence of the historical Spartan kings to Achæan origin.—Emigrations from Peloponnêsus consequent on the Dorian occupation.—Epeians, Pylians, Achæans, Ionians.—Ionians in the north of Peloponnêsus—not recognized by Homer.—Date assigned by Thucydidês to the return of the Herakleids. _pages_ 1-14

SECTION II.—_Migration of Thessalians and Bœotians._

Thessalians move from Thesprôtis into Thessaly.—Non-Hellenic character of the Thessalians.—Bœotians—their migration from Thessaly into Bœotia.—Discrepant legends about the Bœotians.—Affinities between Bœotia and Thessaly.—Transition from mythical to historical Bœotia. 14-19

SECTION III—_Emigrations from Greece to Asia and the Islands of the Ægæan._

1. Æolic Emigration.

Secession of the mythical races of Greece.—Æolic migration under the Pelopids. 19-21

2. Ionic Emigration.

Ionic emigration—branches off from the legendary history of Athens.—Thêseus and Menestheus.—Restoration of the sons of Thêseus 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 Iônia. 21-25

3. Doric Emigrations.

Dorian colonies in Asia.—Thêra.—Legend of the Minyæ from Lemnos.—Minyæ in Triphylia.—Migrations of Dorians to Krete.—Story of Andrôn.—Althæmenês, founder of Rhodes.—Kôs, Knidus, and Karpathus. 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