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he s per ia 86 (201 7) Separating Fact from
Pa ge s 3 7 9 – 4 2 1
Fiction in the Ionian
Migration

ABS TRAC T

Traditional accounts of the foundation of the Ionian cities of Asia Minor posit
a large-scale migration from the Greek mainland led by Athenian colonists.
This article reviews the historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence for
the origins of the Ionian cities and offers a new analysis of the substantial
body of later literary material written in Greek and Latin. This analysis brings
into sharper focus the complex patterns of mobility and local settlement that
contributed to the foundation of the cities, as well as the equally complex
sociopolitical concerns that shaped the origins of their Ionian identity.

In the 2008 volume of this journal, Brian Rose and Holt Parker published
a pair of articles on the Aiolian Migration in which they reconsidered the
evidence for a mass migration from mainland Greece to the northeastern
Aegean during the Early Iron Age.1 This article seeks to follow Rose and
Parker’s lead, examining the evidence for settlement in Ionia, the area
immediately to the south of Aiolia. Specifically, I offer a reassessment of
the evidence surrounding the Ionian Migration, a large-scale migration
from mainland Greece to Ionia thought to have occurred at roughly the
same time the Aiolian Migration, during the 12th, 11th, and 10th cen-
turies b.c.
Such a reassessment is now timely, given the significant advances
in knowledge of recent decades. Most obviously, archaeological and
epigraphical discoveries in Ionia have greatly changed our perspective, and
several excellent surveys of this material are already available.2 Less well
documented are the new developments relating to the relevant literary

1. This article owes much to the
work of Rose (2008) and Parker (2008),
and I am grateful to both Brian Rose
and Jeremy McInerney for the oppor-
tunity to present some of these ideas in
the Gold Medal Award Session honor-
ing Rose at the 146th Annual Meeting
of the Archaeological Institute of
America in 2015. I would also like to
thank Susan Lupack and the anony-
mous reviewers for their helpful com-
ments. I am extremely grateful to
Olivier Mariaud, Antonis Kostonas,
Jana Mokrišová, and Stephen Colvin
for their insight and helpful suggestions
on earlier drafts of this article. Any
errors of fact or judgment are solely
my own.
2. See Lemos 2007; Herda 2009;
Greaves 2010; Mariaud, forthcoming.

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