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When Cecrops died, Cranaus came to the throne1; he was a son of the soil, and it was in
his time that the flood in the age of Deucalion is said to have taken place.2 He married a Lacedaemonian wife, Pedias,
daughter of Mynes, and begat Cranae, Menaechme, and Atthis; and when Atthis died a maid,
Cranaus called the country Atthis.3
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1 Compare Paus. 1.2.6.
2 According to the Parian Chronicle （Marmor Parium 4-7）, Deucalion reigned at Lycorea on Mount Parnassus, and when the flood, following on heavy rains, took place in that district, he fled for safety to king Cranaus at Athens, where he founded a sanctuary of Rainy Zeus and offered thank-offerings for his escape. Compare Eusebius, Chronic. vol. ii. p. 26, ed. A. Schoene. We have seen that, according to Apollod. 3.8.2, the flood happened in the reign of Nyctimus, king of Arcadia.
3 Compare Paus. 1.2.6; Eusebius, Chronic. vol. ii. p. 28, ed. A. Schoene.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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