Helena, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Amphiaraus and his son Amphilochus, Hector and Alexandra the son and daughter of Priam, Phoroneus, Orpheus, Protesilaus, Achilles and his mother Thetis, Ajax, Arcas, Idomeneus, Meriones, AEacus, Melampus, Britomartis, Adrastus, Iolaus, and divers others.  They Deified their dead in divers manners, according to their abilities and circumstances, and the merits of the person; some only in private families, as houshold Gods or Dii Paenates; others by erecting gravestones to them in publick, to be used as altars for annual sacrifices; others, by building also to them sepulchres in the form of houses or temples; and some by appointing mysteries, and ceremonies, and set sacrifices, and festivals, and initiations, and a succession of priests for performing those institutions in the temples, and handing them down to posterity.  Altars might begin to be erected in Europe a little before the days of Cadmus, for sacrificing to the old God or Gods of the Colonies, but Temples began in the days of Solomon; for [187] AEacus the son of AEgina, who was two Generations older than the Trojan war, is by some reputed one of the first who built a Temple in Greece.  Oracles came first from Egypt into Greece about the same time, as also did the custom of forming the images of the Gods with their legs bound up in the shape of the Egyptian mummies:  for Idolatry began in Chaldaea and Egypt, and spread thence into Phoenicia and the neighbouring countries, long before it came into Europe; and the Pelasgians propagated it in Greece, by the dictates of the Oracles.  The countries upon the Tigris and the Nile being exceeding fertile, were first frequented by mankind, and grew first into Kingdoms, and therefore began first to adore their dead Kings and Queens:  hence came the Gods of Laban, the Gods and Goddesses called Baalim and Ashtaroth by the Canaanites, the Daemons or Ghosts to whom they sacrificed, and the Moloch to whom they offered their children in the days of Moses and the Judges.  Every City set up the worship of its own Founder and Kings, and by alliances and conquests they spread this worship, and at length the Phoenicians and Egyptians brought into Europe the practice of Deifying the dead.  The Kingdom of the lower Egypt began to worship their Kings before the days of Moses; and to this worship the second commandment is opposed:  when the Shepherds invaded the lower Egypt, they checked this worship of the old Egyptians, and spread that of their own Kings:  and at length the Egyptians of Coptos and Thebais, under Misphragmuthosis and Amosis, expelling