once to struggle,
and fight, and roar together, and lash up Neptune's world, the sea. The
AEolians did chiefly live in the islands and at Corinth. One of the sons
of AEolus turned out very badly, and cheated Jupiter. His name was
Sisyphus, and he was punished in Tartarus--Pluto's world below--by having
always to roll a stone up a mountain so steep that it was sure to come
down upon him again.

Dorus was, of course, the father of the Dorians; and Xuthus had a son,
called Ion, who was the father of the Ionians. But, besides all these,
there was a story of two brothers, named AEgyptus and Danaus, one of whom
settled in Egypt, and the other in Argos. One had fifty sons and the
other fifty daughters, and AEgyptus decreed that they should all marry;
but Danaus and his daughters hated their cousins, and the father gave
each bride a dagger, with which she stabbed her bridegroom. Only one had
pity, and though the other forty-nine were not punished here, yet, when
they died and went to Tartarus, they did not escape, but were obliged to
be for ever trying to carry water in bottomless vessels. The people of
Argos called themselves Danai, and no doubt some of them came from Egypt.

One more story, and a very strange one, tells of the peopling of Greece.
A fair lady, named Europa, was playing in the meadows on the Phoenician
coast, when a great white bull came to her, let his horns be wreathed
with flowers, lay down, and invited her to mount his back; but no sooner
had she done so, than he rose and trotted down with her to the sea, and
swam with her out of sight. He took her, in fact, to the island of
Crete, where her son Minos was so good and just a king, that, when he
died, Pluto appointed him and two others to be judges of the spirits of
the dead. Europe was called after Europa, as the loss of her led
settlers there from Asia. Europa's family grieved for her, and her
father, mother, and brother went everywhere in search of her. Cadmus was
the name of her brother, and he and his mother went far and wide, till
the mother died, and Cadmus went to Delphi--the place thought to be the
centre of the earth--where Apollo had slain the serpent Python, and where
he had a temple and cavern in which every question could be answered.
Such places of divination were called oracles, and Cadmus was here told
to cease from seeking his sister, and to follow a cow till she fell down
with fatigue, and to build a city on that spot. The poor