A fragment from the writings of Acusilaus asserts that the Peloponnesians were called " Pelasgians " after Pelasgus, a son of Zeus and Niobe.

# Regarding the events before the Olympiads, consider how the Attic chronologers reckon: from the time of Ogygus, during whose tenure the first great flood occurred in Attica, while Phoroneus was ruling the Argives, as Acusilaus records, up to the time of the first year of the first Olympiad, the point after which the Greeks consider time to be reckoned more accurately, 1020 years passed, which agrees with those mentioned earlier and with those who were listed in order.

The works which bore the name of Acusilaus in a later age were spurious.

Phaedrus opens by citing Hesiod, Acusilaus and Parmenides for the claim that Eros is the oldest of the gods, with no parents.

The Bibliotheca ( 3. 12. 6 ) informs that the river Asopus was a son of Oceanus and Tethys or according to Acusilaus of Poseidon by Pero ( otherwise unknown to us ) or according to yet others of Zeus by Eurynome, not making it clear whether he knows there is more than one river named Asopus.

This latter view was accepted by Africanus, who says " that great and first flood occurred in Attica, when Phoroneus was king of Argos, as Acusilaus relates.

Liddell Scott provides other sources for the shortened form of this verb, including Acusilaus ( 5th century BC ), Joannes Laurentius Lydus ( 4th century AD ) and the Scholiast on Aeschylus, Eumenides, who cites Pindar relating how the earth tried to tartaro " cast down " Apollo after he overcame the Python.

Both Acusilaus and Aeschylus in his Prometheus Bound call Prometheus ' wife Hesione.

Acusilaus ( Ancient Greek: ) of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points.

Acusilaus was called the son of Cabras or Scabras, and it is not known whether he was of Peloponnesian or Boeotian Argos.

According to the Suda, Acusilaus wrote genealogies.

* Acusilaus of Argos, who paraphrased in prose, correcting the tradition where it seemed necessary, the genealogical works of Hesiod in the Ionic dialect.

Greek mythographer Acusilaus marks the bull Taurus as the same that formed the myth of the Cretan Bull, one of The Twelve Labors of Hercules.

Nakamura ( '58 ), Verloop ( '48 ), Marchand, Gilroy and Watson ( '50 ), Von Hayek ( '53 ), and Tobin ( '52 ) have all claimed their normal but relatively nonfunctional existence in the human being.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.

To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.

* Secret history, historical events claimed by revisionists to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten

In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200.

When he became ill, the Alemanni claimed to have put a hex on him ( 78. 15. 2 ).

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

But he may have claimed to be a South Carolinian because the state was considering nullification of the Tariff of 1824, which Jackson opposed.

These scholars have claimed this element represents an Old English word amor, the name of a woodland bird.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

Ashdown claimed the Prince said: " I really can't think why we can't have Catholics on the throne ".

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.

Dürer's later works have also been claimed to show Protestant sympathies.

Many observers claimed to have determined such parallaxes, but Tycho Brahe and Giovanni Battista Riccioli concluded that they existed only in the minds of the observers, and were due to instrumental and personal errors.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

The former claimed to have discovered a treatment for agitation in anyone, and the latter team claimed to have discovered a treatment for psychotic illness.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

French author Louis Charpentier claimed that the Ark was taken to Chartres Cathedral by the Knights Templar.

The 97 children were taken from their homes in October 2007 by a then-obscure French charity, Zoé's Ark, which claimed they were orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

Moore dealt with casuistry in chapter 1. 4 of his Principia Ethica ; he claimed that " the defects of casuistry are not defects of principle ; no objection can be taken to its aim and object.

Both Frances and Elsie claimed to have taken the fifth photograph.

The Detroit River — and the larger area surrounding it — was taken from the French by the British Empire during the French and Indian War and eventually claimed by the newly formed United States during the American Revolution.

Rutimeyer claimed that Haeckel “ had taken to kinds of liberty with established truth .” Rutimeyer claimed that Haeckel presented the same image three consecutive times as the embryo of the dog, the chicken, and the turtle.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

There are cups claimed to be the Grail in several churches, for instance the Saint Mary of Valencia Cathedral, which contains an artifact, the Holy Chalice, supposedly taken by Saint Peter to Rome in the 1st century, and then to Huesca in Spain by Saint Lawrence in the 3rd century.

In 1826, the kingdom was claimed by Dost Mohammad Khan and taken from him by the British Indian Army in 1839, who installed the unpopular Shah Shuja.

India has claimed the diamond and have said that the Kohinoor was taken away illegally and it should be given back to India.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

On 3 August 2012, skipper George Edwards published a photograph he claims to be " The most convincing Nessie photograph ever ", which he claimed to have taken on November 2, 2011.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater care of the city than that of the Christian God, inspiring St Augustine to write The City of God, alternative title " De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans ", in which he claimed that whilst the great ' city of Man ' had fallen, Christians were ultimately citizens of the ' city of God.

In a court run by a bishop and a representative of the emperor, and in the presence of Gregory, Ingoald, the Abbot of Farfa, claimed that the Frankish emperors had granted them the lands, and that Popes Adrian I and Leo III had taken possession of the land illegally.

Although it is often claimed that the photoelectric and Compton effects require a quantum description of the EM field, this is now understood to be untrue, and proper proof of the quantum nature of radiation is now taken up into modern quantum optics as in the antibunching effect.

Roger of Hoveden claimed that Henry's corpse bled from the nose in Richard's presence, which was taken as a sign that Richard had caused his death.

Bergler claimed that if gay people wanted to change, and the right therapeutic approach was taken, then they could be cured in 90 % of cases.

Unlike the Chronicler, the Samaritans claimed that they were the true Israel who were descendants of the " lost " tribes taken into Assyrian captivity.

Ailred claimed that much of his information for his Life of S. Ninian was taken from a source written in a " barbarous language ", but there is no knowledge of it other than his own claim.

In his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story of Viz, the comic's creator Chris Donald claimed that the first legal action ever taken against Viz was initiated by a man who objected to the use of a picture of his house ( taken from an estate agent's catalogue ) in one of these photo-strips, and that the British tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror tried to provoke media outrage over another photo-strip which, if taken out of context, could be misconstrued as making light of the problem of illegal drugs being offered to children.