The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2

by Karl Otfried Müller

772. 2. Antimachus of Elis.

1. Theopompus the Eurypontid according to Sosibius.

768. 3. Androcles of Messenia.

Cinæthon the epic poet of Laconia flourishes, according to Eusebius.

* Pheidon, prince of Argos, attempts to conquer Corinth.

764. 4. Polychares of Messenia.

4. Telestas at Corinth.

760. 5. Æschines of Elis.

2. The Chalcidians erect an altar to Apollo Archegetas in Sicily (b. II. ch. 3. § 7.) and, together with some Naxians, found Naxos.

3. Archias at Corinth founds Syracuse,[1997] Chersicrates Corcyra (b. I. ch. 6. § 8.). Eumelus, also a Bacchiad, who composed an ode (προσόδιον) for [pg 448] the Messenians, to be sung at the procession to Delos, and had contended at the Ithomæa, lives with Archias at Syracuse. Phintas the Æpytid reigns in Messenia.