Events. Seat-Tanis. Egypt falls into the power of the Ethiopians. Memphis and Heliopolis taken by Pianki, king of Ethiopia. Seat-Sais. Called "The Wise." Sole king of this dynasty. Burnt alive by Sabaco. So or Sava of Scripture. Contemporary of Sargon, king of Assyria. The Sebichos of the Greek list. The Tirhaka of Scripture, and the contemporary of Hezekiah, added court to the temple of Medeenet Habou, Thebes. Egypt annexed to Assyria by Esarhaddon, and divided into twenty nomes or districts. Thebes taken by Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, and two granite obelisks of the temple of Amen thrown down. Seat-Sais. Accepted the services of the Greeks; made additions to the temples in Thebes, and to the temple of Pthah at Memphis. Rise of Sais. Revival of Egyptian art. Assyrian garrisons expelled from Egypt. Africa circumnavigated by his orders. Made additions to the temple at Karnak. The Hophra of Scripture. The school of Heliopolis flourished. New gods found in the sculptures. His name was the same as that of the first king of the 18th dynasty (called by way of distinction, Amosis); made several additions to the Temple of Neith, at Sais; monolith. naos brought from Elephantine to Sais; erected temple to Isis at Memphis. Solon, Thales, Pythagoras visited Egypt. Port of Mancrates opened to the commerce of Greece. His short reign of six months was cut short by the Persian conquest, B.C. 525. Egypt conquered by Cambyses. The monuments of Egypt injured and destroyed by the Persians. : : : : Dynasty. Wilkinson. Mariette. Lepsius. Events. Mar. Berenice; erected Pylon of Karnak; founded small temple at E'Dayr, near Esne. Mar. Arsinoe. Temple at Antæopolis (Gow. el. Khebeer) erected. Mar. Cleopatra. A decree of the priesthood of Memphis (the Rosetta stone) set up in his honour. Mar. Cleopatra. Temple of Apollinopolis Magna (Edtou) founded. Temple at Ombos founded. Mar.-1. Cleopatra; 2. Cleopatra Cocce; consecrated small temple to Athor at Philæ. Small temple at Edfoo erected. Greek inscription containing a petition of the priests set up at Philæ. Ex Mar.-1. Cleopatra; 2. Selene. Temple With his mother. Mar. Cleopatra. Daughter of Lathyrus. Bequeaths his kingdom to the Romans. A.D. 122 297 325 379 622 EVENTS. Visit of Hadrian to Egypt; and again A.D. 130. Council of Nicæa in the reign of Constantine; Athanasius; Arius. TABLE OF GREEK AND ROMAN ARTISTS. The following list and dates of eminent artists of Ancient Greece and Italy has been taken from Julius Sillig's Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity. Names of Artists, &c. Dædalus of Athens. Smilis of Ægina. Arego, Crato of Sicyon, and Saurias Ardices the Corinthian, and Telephanes (The precise dates of the above About this period flourished Chersiphro Shortly before this time Bularchus, the Glaucus I. invents the soldering iron. Eucheir II. and Eugrammus, Corinthian Contemporary Events. Iphitus of Elis and Cleosthenes, of Pisa re-establish the Olympian games. Corcbus of Elis is victorious in running. The era of the Olympiads begins. Rome built. Chariot races established Age of Solon. Names of Artists, &c. Tectæus and Angelio make the statue of the Delian Apollo. About this time flourished also Bupalus and Anthenis of Chios, and Theocles the Laconian, sculptors; Dontas, Doryclidas, and Medo, all of Laconia, statuaries; and Theodorus II., the Samian, an engraver. Syadras and Chartas, Lacedæmonian statuaries, flourish probably about this period. Bathycles the Magnesian, a statuary, and Spintharus, an architect of Corinth, flourish. About this time Antistates, Callæschrus, Antimachides, and Porinus, architects, lay the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens. Clectas, of Sicyon, the statuary Demeas I. of Crotona, statuary, flourishes. Ageladas of Argos, statuary, makes a statue of Anochus, a victor in the Olympic games. Ageladas makes a chariot in honour of the victory of Cleosthenes at Olympia, and about the same period ennobles a victory obtained by Timasitheus. Callo I. of Ægina, Chrysothemis and Eutelidas of Argos, and Gitiadas the Lacedæmonian, flourish as statuaries. Amphicrates, the statuary, makes the figure of a lioness. Antenor makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Aristocles II. and his brother Canachus I., both of Sicyon, flourish as statuaries. This was the age also of Clearchus of Rhegium. Hegesias and Hegias of Athens, Menæchmus and Soidas of Naupactus, Telephanes II. of Phocis, and Arcesilaus I. flourish as statuaries. Aglaopho I. of Thasos, father of POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, exercises the art of painting. Sillax of Rhegium, the painter, flourishes. Demophilus I. and Gorgasus practise the arts of painting and making plaster-casts at Rome. Stomius, statuary, flourishes. |