a Phoenician historian probably from the seventh century B.C.11 In his recollection of the tradition, Eusebius notes that after Kronos had visited the various regions of the habitable world, he granted the Mediterranean city-states of Attica, Byblos, and Berytus to Athena, Baaltis, and Poseidon respectively, and the land of Egypt to Taautos.12 The passage does not indicate the circumstances of the first three allotments, but the allocation of Egypt’s territory follows Taautos’s designing of the royal