Legends about the origins of the Greek people

The Greeks ignored the history of their origins and to explain it to them they used legends. The first man was the son of Prometheus, one of the Titans, who made it of clay, and gave it life thanks to the divine ray that stole Zeus. This, in punishment, had the titan chained on the top of the Caucasus, where a vulture had to devour him eternally the entrails. Zeus at the same time he punished men with the flood in which they perished. Deucalion, son of PrometheusHe was the only one who could escape, locking himself in a boat that was floating while the flood lasted; As the waters receded, he ran aground on Mount Parnassus. One of the sons of Deucalion called Heleno, He was the ancestor of the Hellenes, that is, the Greeks, he in turn had two sons, Doro and Eolo, and two grandchildren, Jon, Achaeus or Acayo. From these four descendants of Hellenus, the four great Hellenic families were born, Dorians Aeolians, Ionians, and the Achaeans or acayos.
Other legends they recall the establishment of foreign settlers in Greece, particularly the civilizing influence of the Phoenicians and Egyptians. Thebes honored as founder the Phoenician Cadmus, who having left in search of his sister Europa, stolen by Zeus and metamorphosed into a bull, she settled in Greece to obey orders from the oracle of Delphi.
Athens had been founded by the Egyptian Cecrops, the Egyptian Danao had founded Argos. The Peloponnese, (island of Pelops), owed its name to Pelops son of Tantalus king of Lydia, ancestor of Agamemnon, king of the Mycenaeans.