The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton.

  • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Date:
1728
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Credit: The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r Plutarch, in Thefeo. Diodor. 1-i‘P-3 S- • Jofcph. Antiq.l.4. c.8. / old, and (he but (even, or as feme (ay ten. Pi- rithous the fon of Ixion helped The feus to fteal Helena, and then 1 The feus went with Pirithous to Heal Perfephone, the daughter of Aidoneus, or Or- cus, King of the MoloJJlans, and was taken in the adion: and whillf he lay in prifon, Cajlor and Pollux returning from the Argonautic expedition, releafed their filler Helena, and captivated ALthra the mother of Thefeus. Now the daughters of Vanaus being contemporary to Thefeus, and Ibme of their Ions being Argonauts, Vanaus with his daughters fled from his brother Sefojlris into Greece about one Generation before the Argonau¬ tic expedition j and therefore Sefojlris returned into Egypt in the Reign of Rehohoam. He came out of Egypt in the fifth year of Rehohoam} c and fpent nine years in that expedition, againft the Eaftern Nations and Greece \ and therefore return¬ ed back into Egypt, in the fourteenth year of Rehohoam. Sefac and Sefofris were therefore Kings of all Egypty at one and the fame time: and they agree not only in the time, but alfo in their adions and conquefts. God gave Sefac rmnixn nnVoo the Kingdoms of the lands, 2. Chron. xii. Where Herodotus defcribes the expedition of Sefojlris, Jofephus 1 tells us that he defcribed the expedition of Sefac, and attributed his add¬ ons to Sefojlris, erring only in the name of the King. Corruptions of names are frequent in