It combines dates for events we would consider mythic, such as the Heroic Age than on certifiably historic events closer to the date the stele was inscribed and erected, apparently during 264 / 263 BC . " The Parian Marble uses chronological specificity as a guarantee of truth, " Peter Green observed in the introduction to his annotated translation of the " Argonautica " of Apollonios Rhodios : " the mythic past was rooted in historical time, its legends treated as fact, its heroic protagonists seen as links between the'age of origins'and the mortal, everyday world that succeeded it ."
