2. In reckoning from the migration of the Heraclidæ downwards, we follow the Alexandrine chronology, of which it should be observed, that our materials only enable us to restore it to its original state, not to examine its correctness. That it was chiefly founded upon original records and monuments preserved in Peloponnesus, which gave even the years of the kings, has been shown above, b. I. ch. 7. § 3. The dates which Syncellus has preserved from Eusebius, Eusebius from Diodorus, and Diodorus from Apollodorus, could not have been calculated merely by generations; and Larcher's criticism and rejection of the Alexandrine Chronologists may perhaps be found as groundless as they are presumptuous.
[Transcriber's Note: Entries beginning with a number are the year in B.C..]
1104. Migration of the Dorians into Peloponnesus, 80 years after the fall of Troy,[1984] 328 years before the first Olympiad.[1985]
Temenus in Argos, Aristodemus in Sparta, Cresphontes in Messenia, Oxylus the Ætolian in Elis, Cypselus at Basilis. Resistance of the Achæans in Amyclæ. The Nelidæ go from Pylos to Athens.
Birth of Eurysthenes and Procles, and death of Aristodemus king of Sparta. Theras protector of the twin-brothers.[1986]
1074. 30. Eurysthenes and Procles governors of Sparta. Aletes reduces Corinth.[1987] Ceisus the son of Temenus reigns at Argos, Phalces at Sicyon, Agæus at Trœzen (b. I. ch. 5. § 4.), Deiphontes at Epidaurus, Triacon in Ægina, Thersander at Cleonæ (b. I. ch. 5. § 4. b. III. ch. 6. § 10.), [pg 444] Laias the Cypselid, in Arcadia. Pityreus the Ionian goes from Epidaurus to Athens.
1072. 32. Theras colonises Thera with Minyæ and Ægidæ from the district of Amyclæ.
Corinthian Dorians conquer Megara.
Æpytus, son of Cresphontes, re-established in Messenia.
1051. 53. The Thessalian Magnetes found Magnesia in Asia Minor.[1988]