Kitap 9
1.5
In early times this country was held by the same Ionians who held Attica. Megara, however, had not yet been founded; and therefore the poet does not specifically mention this region, but when he calls all the people of Attica Athenians he includes these too under the general name, considering them Athenians. Thus, when he says in the Catalogue, “And those who held Athens, well-built city,”Hom. Il. 2.546we must interpret him as meaning the people now called Megarians as well, and assume that these also had a part in the expedition. And the following is proof: In early times Attica was called Ionia and Ias; and when the poet says, “There the Boeotians and the Iaonians,”Hom. Il. 13.685he means the Athenians; and Megaris was a part of this Ionia.
