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53.
The Lacedaemonians are the only Greeks who tell this story. But in what I write I follow the Greek report, and hold that the Greeks correctly recount these kings of the Dorians as far back as Perseus son of Danae—they make no mention of the god1 —and prove these kings to be Greek; for by that time they had come to be classified as Greeks.
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I said as far back as Perseus, and I took the matter no further than that, because no one is named as the mortal father of Perseus, as Amphitryon is named father of Heracles. So I used correct reasoning when I said that the Greek record is correct as far back as Perseus; farther back than that, if the king's ancestors in each generation, from Danae daughter of Acrisius upward, be reckoned, then the leaders of the Dorians will be shown to be true-born Egyptians.
1 i.e. Zeus; Perseus being by one legend son of Zeus and Danae.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 787
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