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	Eusebius: Chronicle (1) - translation
		Ogygus is said to have been the first [king] of the Athenians;
		After Ogygus, because of the great destruction caused by the flood, Attica remained without a king for 190 years, until the time of Cecrops.
		From the end of the reign of Phoroneus, king of the Argives, in whose time Ogygus' flood is said to have happened, until Phorbas, in whose time Cecrops became king of Attica, is a period of 190 years.
	www.attalus.org /translate/eusebius1.html (3937 words)

	Ogygus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ogygus (Ogyges, Ho Gygos) is a mythological ruler in ancient Greece.
		His spouse was Thebe, from whom the land of Thebes in Greece derives its name.
		After the death of Ogygus, due to the very great destructions of the flood, Attica did not have a king for 189 years, until the time of Cecrops (Cecrops Diphyes).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Ogygus.htm (270 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI
		From Ogygus up to the first Olympiad already mentioned, it will be shown that there are 1020 years; and from the first Olympiad to the first year of the 55th, that is the first year of King Cyrus, which was also the end of the captivity, are 217 years.
		And after Ogygus, by reason of the vast destruction caused by the flood, the present land of Attica remained without a king up to Cecrops, a period of 189 years.
		And again: From Ogygus, therefore, to Cyrus, says he, the same period is reckoned as from Moses to the same date, viz.
	www.godrules.net /library/fathers/anf06s50.htm (4040 words)

	CHURCH FATHERS: Fragments (Julius Africanus)
		In accordance with this writing, therefore, we affirm that Ogygus, who gave his name to the first flood, and was saved when many perished, lived at the time of the exodus of the people from Egypt along with Moses.
		Thus, by analysis, the same period is found to the first year of the exodus of Israel under Moses from Egypt, as from the 55th Olympiad to Ogygus, who founded Eleusis.
		For Philochorus asserts that the Actaeus who is said to have succeeded Ogygus, or whatever other fictitious names are adduced, never existed.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0614.htm (4466 words)

	ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor ...
		And after Ogygus, by reason 134of the vast destruction caused by the flood, the present land of Attica remained without a king up to Cecrops, a period of 189 years.
		And again: From Ogygus, therefore, to Cyrus, says he, the same period is reckoned as from Moses to the same date, viz., 1237 years; and some of the Greeks also record that Moses lived at that same time.
		Polemo, for instance, in the first book of his Greek History, says: In the time of Apis, son of Phoroneus, a division of the army of the Egyptians left Egypt, and settled in the Palestine called Syrian, not far from Arabia: these are evidently those who were with Moses.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf06.v.v.xiii.html (1060 words)

	HELLENIC COSMOGONY-OGYGIUS FLOOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ogygus or Ogyges was believed to be the first indigenous King to Attica and Boeotia which were called "Ogygia" after him.
		Ogygus was believed to have emigrated to Egypt since it was also called "Ogygia" like Attica and Boeotea.
		Pausanias, in "Corinthiaca", says that Foronaeus was considered to be one of the pre-prehistoric Hellenes who had gathered people in communities while until then they used to live a semi-wild life.
	www.greece.org /poseidon/work/argonautika/cosmo1_2.html (197 words)

	Ogygus
		Ogygus (Ogyges, Ho Gygos) is a mythological ruler in ancient Greece.
		His spouse was Thebe, from whom the land of Thebes in Greece derives its name.
		After the death of Ogygus, due to the very great destructions of the flood, Attica did not have a king for 189 years, until the time of Cecrops (Cecrops Diphyes).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Ogygus.html (264 words)

	P07-Affricanus' Chronology
		Ogygus was said to have survived the devastating flood of Attica, a region around present day Athens.
		The time interval from Ogygus (or from Moses and the Exodus) to Cyrus was broken down into two sub-intervals.
		Africanus derived 1020 years using Ogygus as the starting point and going to the first Olympiad.
	www.darrellgenzlinger.com /Page7ACdws.html (1886 words)

	Cadmus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		However, the land where Cadmus founded his city was not empty when he arrived, for a couple of nations, the Hyanteans and the Aonians, occupied Boeotia.
		Before them, it is said, the Ectenes, ruled by King Ogygus, lived in Boeotia, until they were decimated by pestilence and perished.
		Ogygus had two daughters, Aulis and Alalcomenia, after whom the Boeotian cities are called, and some say that Eleusinus, after whom the city of Eleusis in Attica is called, was his son.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Cadmus.html (1949 words)

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	Cadmus, Greek Mythology Link.
		However, the land where Cadmus founded his city was not empty when he arrived, for a couple of nations, the Hyanteans and the Aonians, occupied Boeotia.
		Before them, it is said, the Ectenes, ruled by King Ogygus, lived in Boeotia, until they were decimated by pestilence and perished.
		Ogygus had two daughters, Aulis and Alalcomenia, after whom the Boeotian cities are called, and some say that Eleusinus, after whom the city of Eleusis in Attica is called, was his son.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/Cadmus.html (1949 words)

	Jacoby and Müller on "Thallus"
		MÜLLER: "Ogygus" is an interpretation by Niebuhr (in the collection of his essays, p.
		Ogygus, on the other hand, fled to a region then called Acte, which was renamed Ogygia (Charax via Stephanus Byzantinus, sv.
		Much larger is the similarity of F 2 with Castor 250 F 1; this is probably the original model, as it explains the position of Ogygus (cf.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/richard_carrier/jacoby.html (4739 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 19 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The annexed coin belongs to this gens, but by whom it was struck is uncertain.
		OGYGUS or OGY'GES ('tiytyns), is sometimes called a Boeotian autochthon, and sometimes a son of Boeotus, and king of the Hectenes, and the first ruler of the territory of Thebes, which
		In his reign the waters of lake Copais rose above its banks, and inundated the whole valley of Boeotia.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2353.html (930 words)

	Forgotten History of the Western People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The mythology only gives us a vague picture of what happened, rather like seeing something dimly through the mist.
		The Greeks have a number of other flood stories, including the floods of Atlantis, Ogygus and Deucalion.
		The flood of Atlantis is described as the "great deluge of all" and it probably corresponds to Noah's flood.
	www.write-on.co.uk /history/forgotten_history.htm (3282 words)

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	Dienekes' Anthropology Blog: The Thera Eruption Revisited
		I have always thought that the Thera eruption and the seismic actimity that accompanied it must be somehow linked to the two main Flood stories of the Greeks:
		The Greek tradition had three different flood myths, that of Deukalion, of Dardanus and of Ogygus, these were understood as being different events.
		The people of Samothrace had another flood story of their own.
	dienekes.ifreepages.com /blog/archives/000415.html (1662 words)

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		In 1992 peacekeepers had to be sent into the country when fighting broke out in the Trans-Dnestr province, which was trying to seceede.
		The province, which has since been s led by Ogygus.
		After Philip II of Macedon captured it in the Battle of Chaeronia, it was destroyed as punishment for an uprising.
	www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/ccxiii/elvis/elvis6tu.doc (1741 words)

	Demeter and Eleusis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The city of Eleusis was named after Eleusis, also known as Eleusinus.
		Some say Eleusis is the son of Ogygus, the son of Boeotian king who lost his land to the Phoenician immigrant or invader Cadmus, founder of Thebes.
		Others say that Eleusinus was the son of Hermes and Daira, one of the Oceanids.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/jhartzog/get/classics315/501.html?frame=newset (178 words)

	OGYGES - LoveToKnow Article on OGYGES
		, or OGYGUS, in Greek mythology, the first king of Thebes.
		During his reign a great flood, called the Ogygian deluge, was said to have overwhelmed the land.
		To properly cite this OGYGES article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OG/OGYGES.htm (281 words)

	MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS: Preliminaries by Sanderson Beck
		But my dream forbade me to describe what is within the wall of the sanctuary; and surely it is clear that the uninitiated may not lawfully hear of that from the sight of which they are debarred.
		The hero Eleusis, after whom they name the city, is said by some to be a son of Hermes and of Daira, daughter of Ocean; but others have made him the son of Ogygus.
		Inside the main entrance of the Lesser Propylaia, serving as pillars are huge (twice life-size) statues of goddesses, one on each side, standing on eight-foot pedestals, and bearing the sacred baskets (kistai) which in turn hold up the ceiling.
	www.san.beck.org /Eleusis-3.html (5513 words)

	Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. Chapter IV The Great Flood Part 2
		These coin types prove unquestionably that in the third century of our era the people of Apamea were acquainted with the Hebrew tradition of the Noachian deluge in the form in which the story is narrated in the Book of Genesis.
		Ogyges or Ogygus, as the name is also spelled, is said to have founded and reigned over Thebes in Boeotia, which, according to the learned Varro, was the oldest city in Greece, having been built in antediluvian times before the earliest of all the floods.
		The connexion of Ogyges with Boeotia in general and with Thebes in particular is further vouched for by the name Ogygian which was bestowed on the land, on the city, and on one of its gates.
	englishatheist.org /folklore/four2.shtml (4792 words)

	Thallus (historian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And whence the other countries and cities derived their names, we think it unnecessary to recount, especially to you who are acquainted with history.
		Ho gygos 'that Gygus' is likely an error for Ogygos, referring to the Ogygus associated by chronographers with Attica.
		The name Thallus is too common to make a probable identification with any other known Thallus.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Thallus-(historian).htm (578 words)

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		And after Ogygus, on account of the vast destruction caused by the flood, the present land of Attica remained without a king till the time of Cecrops, 189 years.
		Philochorus, however, affirms that Ogygus, Actaeus, or whatever fictitious name is adduced never existed.
		Notice: JA is careful to make sure his reader KNOWS where the uncertainty of the mythological lies, even citing the specific scholar who takes a very strong stance.
	www.tektonics.org /qt/thallcomp.html (8773 words)

	Greek News - 65th Anniversary: The Battle of Crete
		From Crete this brilliant Minoan civilization was spread toward Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and from the Cretan sailors to any corner of the world.
		Minoan civilization was destroyed twice, the first time when happened the Ogygus cataclysm and the second due to the eruption of Santorini volcano.
		From the Suda air and naval base the offender can controls the broader area of Middle East, the oil fields in the Gulf, as well as the North Africa and Balkan.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3310 (1752 words)

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