then brought into Crete and Greece by
the Phoenicians and upon the third payment
of the tribute of children, that is, about seventeen
years after the said war was at an end, and about
nineteen or twenty years after the death of Androgeus,
Theseus became Victor, and returned from Crete
with Ariadne the daughter of Minos; and
coming to the Island Naxus or Dia, [84]
Ariadne was there relinquished by him, and taken
up by Glaucus, an Egyptian Commander
at Sea, and became the mistress of the great Bacchus,
who at that time returned from India in Triumph;
and [85] by him she had two sons, Phlyas and
Eumedon, who were Argonauts. This
Bacchus was caught in bed in Phrygia
with Venus the mother of AEneas, according
[86] to Homer; just before he came over the
Hellespont, and invaded Thrace; and he
married Ariadne the daughter of Minos,
according to Hesiod [87]: and therefore
by the Testimony of both Homer and Hesiod,
who wrote before the Greeks and Egyptians
corrupted their Antiquities, this Bacchus was
one Generation older than the Argonauts; and
so being King of Egypt at the same time with
Sesostris, they must be one and the same King:
for they agree also in their actions; Bacchus
invaded India and Greece, and after he
was routed by the Army of Perseus, and the
war was composed, the Greeks did him great
honours, and built a Temple to him at Argos,
and called it the Temple of the Cresian Bacchus,
because Ariadne was buried in it, as Pausanias
[88] relates. Ariadne therefore died in the
end of the war, just before the return of Sesostris
into Egypt, that is, in the 14th year of Rehoboam:
She was taken from Naxus upon the return of
Bacchus from India, and then became
the Mistress of Bacchus, and accompanied him
in his Triumphs; and therefore the expedition of Theseus
to Crete, and the death of his father AEgeus,
was about nine or ten years after the death of Solomon.
Theseus was then a beardless young man, suppose
about 19 or 20 years old, and Androgeus was
slain about twenty years before, being then about
20 or 22 years old; and his father Minos might
be about 25 years older, and so be born about the
middle of David’s Reign, and be about
70 years old when he pursued Daedalus into Sicily:
and Europa and her brother Cadmus might
come into Europe, two or three years before
the birth of Minos.