In the days of _Erechtheus_ King of _Athens_, and _Celeus_ King of _Eleusis_, _Ceres_ came into _Attica_; and educated _Triptolemus_ the son of _Celeus_, and taught him to sow corn. She [136] lay with _Jasion_, or _Jasius_, the brother of _Harmonia_ the wife of _Cadmus_; and presently after her death _Erechtheus_ was slain, in a war between the _Athenians_ and _Eleusinians_; and, for the benefaction of bringing tillage into _Greece_, the _Eleusinia Sacra_ were instituted to her [137] with _Egyptian_ ceremonies, by _Celeus_ and _Eumolpus_; and a Sepulchre or Temple was erected to her in _Eleusine_, and in this Temple the families of _Celeus_ and _Eumolpus_ became her Priests: and this Temple, and that which _Eurydice_ erected to her daughter _Danae_, by the name of _Juno Argiva_, are the first instances that I meet with in _Greece_ of Deifying the dead, with Temples, and Sacred Rites, and Sacrifices, and Initiations, and a succession of Priests to perform them. Now by this history it is manifest that _Erechtheus_, _Celeus_, _Eumolpus_, _Ceres_, _Jasius_, _Cadmus_, _Harmonia_, _Asterius_, and _Dardanus_ the brother of _Jasius_, and one of the founders of the Kingdom of _Troy_, were all contemporary to one another, and flourished in their youth, when _Cadmus_ came first into _Europe_. _Erechtheus_ could not be much older, because his daughter _Procris_ convers'd with _Minos_ King of _Crete_; and his grandson _Thespis_ had fifty daughters, who lay with _Hercules_; and his daughter _Orithyia_ was the mother of _Calais_ and _Zetes_, two of the _Argonauts_ in their youth; and his son _Orneus_ [138] was the father of _Peteos_ the father of _Menestheus_, who warred at _Troy_: nor much younger, because his second son _Pandion_, who with the _Metionides_ deposed his elder brother _Cecrops_, was the father of _Ægeus_, the father of _Theseus_; and _Metion_, another of his sons, was the father of _Eupalamus_, the father of _Dædalus_, who was older than _Theseus_; and his daughter _Creusa_ married _Xuthus_, the son of _Hellen_, and by him had two sons, _Achæus_ and _Ion_; and _Ion_ commanded the army of the _Athenians_ against the _Eleusinians_, in the battle in which his grandfather _Erechtheus_ was slain: and this was just before the institution of the _Eleusinia Sacra_, and before the Reign of _Pandion_ the father of _Ægeus_. _Erechtheus_ being an _Egyptian_ procured corn from _Egypt_, and for that benefaction was made King of _Athens_; and near the beginning of his Reign _Ceres_ came into _Attica_ from _Sicily_, in quest of her daughter _Proserpina_. We cannot err much if we make _Hellen_ contemporary to the Reign of _Saul_, and to that of _David_ at _Hebron_; and place the beginning of the Reign of _Erechtheus_ in the 25th year, the coming of _Ceres_ into _Attica_ in the 30th year, and the dispersion of corn by _Triptolemus_ about the 40th year of _David_'s Reign; and the death of _Ceres_ and _Erechtheus_, and institution of the _Eleusinia Sacra_, between the tenth and fifteenth year of _Solomon_.