OR THE APPLICATION OF ANTIENT GEOGRAPHY TO THE CLASSICS. BY SAMUEL BUTLER, D.D. F.R.S. &c. &c. ARCHDEACON OF DERBY, AND HEAD MASTER OF THE ROYAL FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE NINTH LONDON EDITION, BY JOHN FROST. PHILADELPHIA: CAREY AND LEA, CHESNUT STREET. 1831. Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1831, in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Weeks, Printer. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. B. C. 4004 2348 2247 Creation of the world. The deluge. Tower of Babel built, and confusion of languages. 2059 The Assyrian empire founded. 1996 Birth of Abraham. 1728 Joseph sold into Egypt. 1571 Moses born. 1556 Kingdom of Attica founded by Cecrops. 1493 Thebes built by Cadmus. 1452 The five books of Moses written, who dies the next year. 1406 Minos the Cretan lawgiver. 1356 Eleusinian mysteries introduced at Athens by Eumolpus. 1263 Aygonautic expedition. 1225 Theban war. 1184 Troy taken. 1104 Return of the Heraclide to the Peloponnese. 1095 Saul made king of Israel. 1070 Codrus last king of Athens. 1044 Settlement of the Ionian colonies in Asia Minor. Age of Homer. 1004 Dedication of Solomon's temple. 975 Kingdoms of Israel and Judah divided. 907 Age of Hesiod. 896 Elijah taken up to heaven. 884 Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver. 869 Carthage built. 820 Sardanapalus, last king of Assyria. Median empire founded, Ol. i. 1. A.U.C. B.C. 776 Corabus conquers at the Olympic games; from which time the regular dates of the Olympiads begin. 757 Isaiah begins to prophesy. 753 Rome founded, April 20. 743 First Messenian war; continues 19 years 721 Kingdom of Israel finished by the taking 684 Annual Archons established at Athens. 623 Draco the Athenian lawgiver. 587 Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar king 577 Death of Jeremiah the prophet. 561 Pisistratus usurps the sovereign power at 559 Persian empire founded upon the Median by Cyrus. Age of Anaximenes, Bias, Anaximander, Phalaris, and Cleobulus. 548 Cræsus, last king of Lydia, conquered by Cyrus. Age of Theognis and Pherecvdes. 539 Marseilles built by the Phocæans. Age of Pythagoras, Simonides, Thespis, Xenophanes, and Anacreon. 438 Babylon taken by Cyrus. 536 Edict of Cyrus for the return of the Jews, 509 Expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome. lxx. 3. 256 261 lxxii. 3. 264 End of the regal, and establishment of 504 Sardis burnt by the Athenians, which causes the invasion of Greece by the Persians. Age of Heraclitus, Parme- nides, Milo the wrestler, Aristagoras, 498 Lartius the first dictator created at Rome. 490 Battle of Marathon. Age of Miltiades. 479 Battles of Platea and Mycale on the same 477 The 300 Fabii killed in one day. 465 Third Messenian war; continues 10 years. 454 The Romans send to Athens for Solon's laws. Age of Sophocles, Pericles, Za- leucus, Nehemiah the prophet, &c. 448 The first sacred war concerning the tem- 447 The Athenians defeated by the Boeotians, xciv. 1. 350 continues twenty-seven years. Age of Cratinus, Eupolis, Aristophanes, 'Meton, Democritus, Gorgias, Thucydides, Hip- pocrates, Malachi the last of the Pro- phets: and the history of the Old Testa- 421 The fifty years' peace made between the Athenians and Lacedæmonians, which is kept but six years and 10 months. 416 Scene of the Peloponnesian war removed 404 Athens taken by Lysander, which puts an 353 401 Cyrus the younger killed at Cunaxa. Re- treat of the 10,000 Greeks. Expulsion |