THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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generation after Car, the son of Phoroneus, and that in his
reign the people were called Leleges. They
also said that
Megareus, son of Poseidon, succeeded Nisus on the throne,
having married the king's daughter Iphinoe.
In the reign of Nisus, according to another story, the city
was taken by Minos of Crete.
Not one of these legends refers to an Achean conquest ;
it is clearly indicated that up to the Dorian times it had
been occupied by the same people as Attica, and although
there are at least two indications of conquest before the
Dorians, no reference whatever is made to the Acheans. It
is also noteworthy that their eponymous
Poseidon and not
of Zeus.
Phocis.
hero is a son of
The name Phocis was originally confined to the district
round Delphi and Tithorea. It was said to derive its name
from Phocus, son of Ornytion of Corinth, whose pedigree we
have already seen when treating of that city.
A generation
" when a body of Aeginetans under Phocus, son of
later,
Aeacus, had .sailed to the country, the name came into general
use as the designation of the whole region now known as
Phocis'." According to another story- Phocus son of Aeacus
was slain by his brothers Peleus and Telamon in Aegina, where
his grave was shown (p.
11!) /^).
"The children of Phocus
settled near Parnassus in the couutiy
Phtjcis."
that is now called
Here attain we find a sett lenient of tlie old I'ace occupied
afterwai'ds l)y
an Acliean j)rinc(^
and his ])eoj)le.
Later we
shall see evidence for a Thraeian settlement in Phocis.
Delphi. "^riiev sav that the oldest city here was founded
bv Parnassus, son of a nyni|ih,
Cleixlora. Like othei' heroes,
as thev ari' called, he is ere