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==Greek and Roman==
Most ancient Greek and Roman chroniclers, poets, grammarians, and scholars ([[Eratosthenes]], [[Varro]], [[Apollodorus of Athens]], [[Ovid]], [[Censorinus]], [[Catullus]], and [[Castor of Rhodes]]) believed in a threefold division of history: ''ádelon'' (obscure), ''mythikón'' (mythical) and ''historikón'' (historical) periods.<ref>''Ovid, Varro, and Castor of Rhodes: The Chronological Architecture of the "Metamorphoses"'', Thomas Cole, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 102, (2004), pp. 355-422.</ref> According to the Roman [[
{{quote|The first [period] stretches from the beginning of mankind [the creation] to the first cataclysm [i.e. the flood of [[Ogyges]]].<ref name="Epoch-making Eratosthenes 2005">''Epoch-making Eratosthenes'', Astrid Möller, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005) 200–260.</ref>}}
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