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40 but particularly the wandering of Demeter, the finding of Core, the visit to Celeus, the husbandry of Triptolemus; the vine-planting of Icarius, and the sad fate of Erigone; the story of Boreas, of Oreithyia, of Theseus and Aegeus. Also, the reception of Medea and her later flight to Persia, the daughters of Erechtheus, and the daughters of Pandion, with what they suffered and did in Thrace. Then Acamas, Phyllis,The Thracian princess Phyllis hanged herself because her lover, one of the sons of Theseus, did not return to her. As the story is usually told, the lover was Demophon (Apoll., Epit., vi, 16-17; Ovid, Herotdes, ii). Another version, however, gave ‘that part to Acamas (Aeschines, II, 31), and that is probably Lucian’s intention here. But it is also possible that he expects us to supply from memory the name of Demophon in connection with that of Phyllis, and to associate with that of Acamas his affair with Laodice, daughter of Priam, who came to him self-invited (Lycophron, Alez., 496), and later, at the fall of Troy, gave him Munitus, the son she had borne him, and was herself swallowed up by the earth. the first rape of Helen, the campaign of the Dioscuri against the city, the fate of Hippolytus, and the return of the Heracleidae; for all this may properly be considered Attic.

40 These Athenian tales that I have run over are a very few by way of example out of the many that have been omitted.