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Thus much is related by the Lacedaemonians, but not by any of the
other Greeks; in what follows I give the tradition of the Greeks
generally. The kings of the Dorians (they say) - counting up to
Perseus, son of Danae, and so omitting the god - are rightly given
in the common Greek lists, and rightly considered to have been Greeks
themselves; for even at this early time they ranked among that people.
I say "up to Perseus," and not further, because Perseus has no
mortal father by whose name he is called, as Hercules has in
Amphitryon; whereby it appears that I have reason on my side, and am
right in saying, "up to Perseus." If we follow the line of
Danad, daughter of Acrisius, and trace her progenitors, we shall
find that the chiefs of the Dorians are really genuine Egyptians. In
the genealogies here given I have followed the common Greek accounts.
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