290 HISTORY OF GREECE. Herodotus, and illustrated by the ingenuity as well as deco: ated by the fancy of 0. Miiller through which the Dorians are affiliated with the patriarch of the Hellenic race, moving originally out of Phthiotis to Histiaeotis, then to Pindus, and lastly to Doris. The residence of Dorians in Doris, is a fact which meets us at the commencement of history, like that of the Phokians and Lokrians in their respective territories. We next pass to the JEtolians, whose extreme tribes covered the bleak heights of (Eta and Korax, reaching almost within sight of the Maliac gulf, where they bordered on the Dorians and Malians, while their central and western tribes stretched along the frontier of the Ozolian Lokrians to the flat plain, abundant in marsh and lake, near the mouth of the Euenus. In the time of Herodotus and Thucydides, they do not seem to have extended so far westward as the Achelous ; but in later times, this latter river, throughout the greater part of its lower course, divided them from the Akarnanians :' on the north, they touched upon the Dolopians, and upon a parallel of latitude nearly as far north as Ambrakia. There were three great divisions of the JEtolian name, the Apodoti, Ophioneis, and Eurytanes, each of which was subdivided into several different village tribes. The north- ern and eastern portion of the territory 2 consisted of very high mountain ranges, and even in the southern portion, the mountains ^.rakynthus, Kurion, Chalkis, Taphiassus, are found at no great distance from the sea ; while the chief towns in uiEtolia, Kalydon, Pleuron, Chalkis, seem to have been situated eastward of the Euenus, between the last-mentioned mountains and the sea. 3 The first two towns have been greatly ennobled in legend, but 1 Herod, vii. 126; Thucyd. ii. 102. 2 See the difficult journey of Fiedler from Wrachori northward by Karpe- nitz, and then across the north-western portion of the mountains of the an- cient Eurytanes (the southern continuation of Mount Tymphrestus and (Eta), into the upper valley of the Spercheius (Fiedler's Reise in Griechenland, vol. i. pp. 177-191 ), a part of the longer journey from Missolonghi to Zeitun. Skylax (c. 35) reckons ^Etolia as extending inland as far as the bounda- ries of the JEnianes on the Spercheius which is quite correct JKtoiiu Epiktetus p-XP<- T Vf Olraiaf, Strabo, x. p. 450.
- Strabo, x. pp. 459-460. There is, however, great uncertainty about the
position of these ancient towns: compare Kruss. Hellas, vol. iii. ch. xi. pp. 833-255, and Brandslater, Geschichte des ^Etolischen Landes, pp. J21 134.
