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 MYTHICAL AND HISTORICAI BCEOTIA. 11 What is most important to remark is, that the stories of Thu- eydides and Ephorus bring us out of the mythical into the histor- ical Boeotia. Orchomenus is Boeotized, and we hear no more of the once-powerful Minyae : there are no more Kadmeians at Thebes, nor Boeotians in Thessaly. The Minyaa and the Kad- meians disappear in the Ionic emigration, which will be presently adverted to. Historical Breotia is now constituted, apparently in its federative league, under the presidency of Thebes, just as we find it in the time of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. SECTION HI.- EMIGRATIONS FROM GREECE TO ASIA AND THE ISLANDS OF THE jEG/EAN. 1. JEOLIC.2. IONIC. 3. DORIC. To complete the transition of Greece from its mythical to ill historical condition, the secession of the races belonging to the former must follow upon the introduction of those belonging to the latter. This is accomplished by means of the .ZEolic and Ionic migrations. The presiding chiefs of the JEollc emigration are the represen tatives of the heroic lineage of the Pelopids : those of the Ionic emigration belong to the Neleids ; and even in what is called the Doric emigration to Thera, the CEkist Theras is not a Dorian but a Kadmeian, the legitimate descendant of GEdipus and Kad mus. The ^Eolic, Ionic, and Doric colonies were planted along, the western coast of Asia Minor, from the coasts of the Propontis southward down to Lykia (I shall in a future chapter speak more exactly of their boundaries) ; the JEolic occupying the northern portion, together with the islands of Lesbos and Tenedos ; the Doric occupying the southernmost, together with the neighboring islands of Rhodes and Kos ; and the Ionic being planted between thesn, comprehending Chios, Samos, and the Cyclades islands. 1. ^EOLIC EMIGRATION. The .ZEolic emigration was conducted by the Pelopids : the original story seems to have been, that Orestes himself was at the head of the first batch of colonists, and this version of the event