ing their father's lands fairly,
the eldest two sons quarreled with the youngest, and finally drove him
away. Homeless and poor, Xuthus now went to Athens, where he was warmly
welcomed by the king, who not only treated him very kindly, but also
gave him his daughter in marriage, and promised that he should inherit
the throne.

This promise was duly kept, and Xuthus the exile ruled over Athens. When
he died, he left the crown to his sons, I'on and A-chae'us.

As the A-the'ni-ans had gradually increased in number until their
territory was too small to afford a living to all the inhabitants, Ion
and Achaeus, even in their father's lifetime, led some of their followers
along the Isthmus of Corinth, and down into the peninsula, where they
founded two flourishing states, called, after them, A-cha'ia and
I-o'ni-a. Thus, while northern Greece was pretty equally divided between
the Do'ri-ans and AE-o'li-ans, descendants and subjects of Dorus and
AEolus, the peninsula was almost entirely in the hands of the I-o'ni-ans
and A-chae'ans, who built towns, cultivated the soil, and became bold
navigators. They ventured farther and farther out at sea, until they
were familiar with all the neighboring bays and islands.

Sailing thus from place to place, the Hellenes came at last to Crete, a
large island south of Greece. This island was then governed by a very
wise king called Mi'nos. The laws of this monarch were so just that all
the Greeks admired them very much. When he died, they even declared that
the gods had called him away to judge the dead in Ha'des, and to decide
what punishments and rewards the spirits deserved.

Although Minos was very wise, he had a subject named Daed'a-lus who was
even wiser than he. This man not only invented the saw and the potter's
wheel, but also taught the people how to rig sails for their vessels.

As nothing but oars and paddles had hitherto been used to propel ships,
this last invention seemed very wonderful; and, to compliment Daedalus,
the people declared that he had given their vessels wings, and had thus
enabled them to fly over the seas.

Many years after, when sails were so common that they ceased to excite
any wonder, the people, forgetting that these were the wings which
Daedalus had made, invented a wonderful story, which runs as follows.

Minos, King of Crete, once sent for Daedalus, and bade him build a maze,
or labyrinth, with so many rooms and winding halls, that no one, once in
it