The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (Annotated) (English Edition)

THE CONTENTS.
_A Short Chronicle from the first Memory of Things in page 1 Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great._
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended.
Chap. I. Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the p. 43 Greeks_._
Chap. II. Of the Empire of Egypt_._ p. 191
Chap. III. Of the Assyrian _Empire._ p. 265
Chap. IV. _Of the two Contemporary Empires of the p. 294 Babylonians and Medes._
Chap. V. _A Description of the Temple of Solomon._ p. 332
Chap. VI. _Of the Empire of the Persians._ p. 347
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_Tho' The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended, was writ by the Author many years since; yet he lately revis'd it, and was actually preparing it for the Press at the time of his death. But The Short Chronicle was never intended to be made public, and therefore was not so lately corrected by him. To this the Reader must impute it, if he shall find any places where the Short Chronicle does not accurately agree with the Dates assigned in the larger Piece. The Sixth Chapter was not copied out with the other Five, which makes it doubtful whether he intended to print it: but being found among his Papers, and evidently appearing to be a Continuation of the same Work, and (as such) abridg'd in _the Short Chronicle_; it was thought proper to be added._
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A SHORT
CHRONICLE
FROM THE First Memory of Things in Europe, TO THE Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.
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The INTRODUCTION.
The Greek Antiquities are full of Poetical Fictions, because the Greeks wrote nothing in Prose, before the Conquest of Asia by Cyrus the Persian. Then Pherecydes Scyrius and Cadmus Milesius introduced the writing in Prose. Pherecydes Atheniensis, about the end of the Reign of Darius Hystaspis, wrote of Antiquities, and digested his work by Genealogies, and was reckoned one of the best Genealogers. Epimenides the Historian proceeded also by Genealogies; and Hellanicus, who was twelve years older than Herodotus, digested his History by the Ages or Successions of the Priestesses of Juno Argiva. Others digested theirs by the Kings of the _Lacedæmonians_, or Archons of Athens. Hippias the Elean, about thirty years before the fall of the Persian Empire, published a breviary or list of the Olympic Victors; and about ten years before the fall thereof, Ephorus the disciple of Isocrates formed a Chronological History of Greece, beginning with the return of the Heraclides into Peloponnesus, and ending with the siege of Perinthus, in the twentieth year of Philip the father of Alexander the great: But he digested things by Generations, and the reckoning by Olympiads was not yet in use, nor doth it appear that the Reigns of Kings were yet set down by numbers of years. The Arundelian marbles were composed sixty years after the death of Alexander the great (_An._ 4. _Olymp._ 128.) and yet mention not the Olympiads: But in the next Olympiad, _Timæus Siculus_ published an history in several books down to his own times, according to the Olympiads, comparing the Ephori, the Kings of Sparta, the Archons of Athens, and the Priestesses of Argos, with the Olympic Victors, so as to make the Olympiads, and the Genealogies and Successions of Kings, Archons, and Priestesses, and poetical histories suit with one another, according to the best of his judgment. And where he left off, Polybius began and carried on the history.
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