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The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae—they make no mention of the god 1 —and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks.
The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae—they make no mention of the god 1 —and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks.
[2] I said as far back as
Perseus, and I took the matter no further than that, because no one is named as the mortal father of
Perseus, as
Amphitryon is named father of
Heracles. So I used correct reasoning when I said that the
Greek record is correct as far back as
Perseus; farther back than that, if the king's ancestors in each generation, from
Danae daughter of
Acrisius upward, be reckoned, then the leaders of the
Dorians will be shown to be true-born
Egyptians.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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