They begin from Cecrops, and come down to the 160th Olympiad.
Hence we may judge of the antiquity of the custom from the times to which Cecrops is referred.
Tradition also relates that at Athens, until the time of Cecrops, children bore the name of their mother.
Some have said of Cecrops that he underwent a metamorphosis, being changed from a serpent to a man.
The Greeks worshipped their gods without any visible representations of them until the time of Cecrops.
