instituted the game of racing, and that the victor should be rewarded with a crown of olive_; and there erected an altar to Jupiter Olympius, and called these games Olympic:  and that some of the Eleans said, that Jupiter_ contended here with Saturn for the Kingdom; others that Hercules Idaeus instituted these games in memory of their victory over the Titans_:  for the people of Arcadia [179] had a tradition, that the Giants fought with the Gods in the valley of Bathos, near the river Alpheus and the fountain Olympias. [180] Before the Reign of Asterius, his father Teutamus came into Crete with a colony from Olympia; and upon the flight of Asterius, some of his friends might retire with him into their own country, and be pursued and beaten there by the Idaean Hercules:  the Eleans said also that Clymenus the grandson of the Idaean Hercules, about fifty years after Deucalion’s flood, coming from Crete, celebrated these games again in Olympia, and erected there an altar to Juno Olympia, that is, to Europa, and another to this Hercules and the rest of the Curetes; and Reigned in Elis ’till he was expelled by Endymion, [181] who thereupon celebrated these games again:  and so did Pelops, who expelled AEtolus the son of Endymion; and so also did Hercules the son of Alcmena, and Atreus the son of Pelops, and Oxylus:  they might be celebrated originally in triumph for victories, first by Hercules Idaeus, upon the conquest of Saturn and the Titans, and then by Clymenus, upon his coming to Reign in the Terra Curetum; then by Endymion, upon his conquering Clymenus; and afterwards by Pelops, upon his conquering AEtolus; and by Hercules, upon his killing Augeas; and by Atreus, upon his repelling the Heraclides; and by Oxylus, upon the return of the Heraclides into Peloponnesus.  This Jupiter, to whom they were instituted, had a Temple and Altar erected to him in Olympia, where the games were celebrated, and from the place was called Jupiter Olympius:  Olympia was a place upon the confines of Pisa, near the river Alpheus.

In the [182] Island Thasus, where Cadmus left his brother Thasus, the Phoenicians built a Temple to Hercules Olympius, that Hercules, whom Cicero [183] calls ex Idaeis Dactylis; cui inferias afferunt.  When the mysteries of Ceres were instituted in Eleusis, there were other mysteries instituted to her and her daughter and daughter’s husband, in the Island Samothrace, by the Phoenician names of Dii Cabiri Axieros, Axiokersa, and Axiokerses,