Megara, the ancient Greek city and state whose territory lay
between Attica and Corinth, forming part of the Corinthian
isthmus, "is affirmed to have been originally settled by the
Dorians of Corinth, and to have remained for some time a
dependency of that city. It is farther said to have been at
first merely one of five separate villages—Megara, Heræa,
Peiræa, Kynosura, Tripodiskus—inhabited by a kindred
population, and generally on friendly terms, yet sometimes
distracted by quarrels. …
See CORINTH: B. C. 745-725.
Whatever may be the truth respecting this alleged early
subjection of Megara, we know it in the historical age, and
that too as early as the 14th Olympiad, only as an independent
Dorian city, maintaining the integrity of its territory under its
leader Orsippus, the famous Olympic runner, against some
powerful enemies, probably the Corinthians. It was of no mean
consideration, possessing a territory which extended across
Mount Geraneia to the Corinthian Gulf, on which the fortified
town and port of Pêgæ, belonging to the Megarians, was
situated. It was mother of early and distant colonies,—and
competent, during the time of Solon, to carry on a protracted
contest with the Athenians, for the possession of Salamis;
wherein, although the latter were at last victorious, it was
not without an intermediate period of ill-success and
despair."
_G. Grote,
History of Greece,
part 2, chapter 9._
See, also, GREECE: THE MIGRATIONS.
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MEGARA: B. C. 610-600.
Struggle with Athens for Salamis.
Spartan arbitration favorable to the Athenians.
See ATHENS: B. C. 610-586.
MEGARA: B. C. 458-456.
Alliance with Athens in war with Corinth and Ægina.
See GREECE: B. C. 458-456.
MEGARA: B. C. 446-445.
Rising against Athens.
See GREECE: B. C. 449-445.
MEGARA: B. C. 431-424.
Athenian invasions and ravages.
See ATHENS: B. C. 431.
MEGARA: B. C. 339-338.
Resistance to Philip of Macedon.
See GREECE: B. C. 357-336.
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MEGARA OF CARTHAGE, The.
See CARTHAGE: DIVISIONS.