There are German writers who seem to imagine that the new school of history is built on the maxim of denying what is, and explaining what is not?
Ion is never recorded as supplanting, or even succeeding, an Attic king.

He might have introduced the worship of Apollo; but, as Mr.
Clinton rightly observes, that worship never superseded the worship of Minerva, who still remained the tutelary divinity of the city.
However vague the traditions respecting Ion, they all tend to prove an alliance with the Athenians, viz., precisely the reverse of a conquest of them.
[78] That connexion which existed throughout Greece, sometimes pure, sometimes perverted, was especially and originally Doric.
[79] Prideaux on the Marbles.

The Iones are included in this confederacy; they could not, then, have taken their name from the Hellenic Ion, for Ion was not born at the time of Amphictyon.

The name Amphictyon is, however, but a type of the thing amphictyony, or association.

Leagues of this kind were probably very common over Greece, springing almost simultaneously out of the circumstances common to numerous tribes, kindred with each other, yet often at variance and feud.