The _Aitolians_ appear as a Greek people, and so do most of the other divisions of the Greek nation, only their position and relative importance is often different from what it was afterwards. Thus, to mention a few examples out of many, the _Lokrians_, who, in historic times, appear both on the sea of Euboia and on the Corinthian gulf, appear in the catalogue in their northern seats only. When we turn from tribes to cities, the difference is still greater. ♦Groupings of cities.♦ The cities which held the first place in historic times are not always those which are greatest in the earlier time, and their grouping in federations or principalities is wholly unlike anything in later history. Thus in the historic _Boiotia_ we find _Orchomenos_ as the second city of a confederation of which _Thebes_ is the first. In the catalogue Orchomenos and the neighbouring city _Aspledôn_ form a separate division, distinct from Boiôtia. Euboia forms a whole; and, what is specially to be noticed, _Attica_, as a land, is not mentioned, but only the single city of _Athens_, with _Salamis_ as a kind of dependency. Peloponnêsos again is divided in a manner quite different from anything in later times. The ruling city is _Mykênê_, whose king holds also a general superiority over all Hellas, while his immediate dominion takes in _Corinth_, _Kleônai_, _Sikyôn_, and the whole south coast of the Corinthian Gulf, the _Achaia_ of later times. The rest of the cities of the Argolic peninsula are grouped round _Argos_. Northern Greece again is divided into groups of cities which answer to nothing in later times. And its relative importance in the Greek world is clearly far greater than it was in the historic period.