The kings of the Argives were these: Inachus, Phoroneus, Apis, Criasus, Triopas, Argeius, Phorbas, Crotopas, Sthenelaus, Danaus, Lynceus, Proetus, Abas, Acrisius, Perseus, Sthenelaus, Eurystheus, Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon—in the eighteenth year of whose reign Ilium was captured. And the man of understanding must comprehend, with all accuracy, that according to the tradition of the Greeks there was among them no record even of history. For Cadmus, who handed over the alphabet to the aforesaid people, set foot in Boeotia many generations later. And after Inachus, in the time of Phoroneus, the wild and nomadic life was scarcely brought to an end, and men were reordered. Therefore, if Moses has been shown to have lived in the time of Inachus, he is older than the Trojan events by four hundred years. And this is demonstrated to be so from the succession of the Attic kings [and the Macedonian and the Ptolemaic, and moreover the Antiochian]. Whence, if after Inachus the more conspicuous deeds among the Greeks were recorded and are known, it is clear that this is also after Moses. For in the time of Phoroneus, the one after Inachus, Ogyges is mentioned among the Athenians, in whose time was the first flood; and in the time of Phorbas was Actaeus, from whom Attica was also called Actaea; and in the time of Triopas were Prometheus and Epimetheus and Atlas and the two-natured Cecrops and Io; and in the time of Crotopas was the conflagration in the time of Phaethon and the deluge in the time of Deucalion; and in the time of Sthenelus were both the reign of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus into the Peloponnese and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus and the bringing of Europa from Phoenicia to Crete; and in the time of Lynceus the rape of the Maiden (Kore) and the founding of the precinct at Eleusis and the husbandry of Triptolemus and the coming of Cadmus to Thebes and the reign of Minos; and in the time of Proetus the war of Eumolpus against the Athenians; and in the time of Acrisius the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia and the arrival of Ion in Athens and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and Dionysus, and Musaeus the disciple of Orpheus; and in the reign of Agamemnon Ilium was captured.