Isokratês (Or. vi. Archidamus, p. 120) makes out a good title by a different line of mythical reasoning. There seem to have been also stories containing mythical reasons why the Herakleids did not acquire possession of Arcadia (Polyæn. i. 7).
[8] Plato, Legg. iii. 6-7, pp. 682-686.
[9] Pausan. vii. 1-3.
[10] Polyb. ii. 45; iv. 1; Strabo, viii. pp. 383-384. This Tisamenus derives his name from the memorable act of revenge ascribed to his father Orestês. So, in the legend of the Siege of Thêbes, Thersander, as one of the Epigoni, avenged his father Polynikês: the son of Thersander was also called Tisamenus (Herodot. iv. 149). Compare O. Müller, Dorians, i. p. 69, note 9, Eng. Trans.
[11] Diodôr. iv. 1. The historian Ephorus embodied in his work a narrative in considerable detail of this grand event of Grecian legend, the Return of the Herakleids,—with which he professed to commence his consecutive history: from what sources he borrowed we do not know.
[12] Strabo, viii. p. 389. Pausan. ii. 6, 2; 12, 1.
[13] Conôn, Nar. 36; Strabo, viii. p. 365.
[14] Strabo, viii. p. 359; Conôn, Narr. 39.
[15] Thucydid. iv. 42. Schol. Pindar. Olymp. xiii. 17; and Nem. vii. 155. Conôn, Narrat. 26. Ephor. ap. Strab. viii. p. 389.
Thucydidês calls the ante-Dorian inhabitants of Corinth Æolians; Conôn calls them Ionians.