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	Dorians
		The Dorians are best known for their invasion of mainland Greece which, along with the civil war at the end of the Mycenean, led to the Greek Dark Ages.
		As the Dorians settled many areas of the Aegean, their way of rulership, was generally to merge with the indigenous people of their land, as seen with the invasion of Corinth, Rhodes, and Argos.
		Dorian artistic elements proved to be integral to the artistic traditions of ancient Greece.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/theculturesofgreece/dorians.html (517 words)

	Greek History
		With the Dorian invasion between 1100 and 950 BC, which is referred to as "the return of the sons of Heracles" in mythology, ended the bronze age and the dark ages of Hellas.
		The Dorians, together with the north-western Greeks settled down mostly in the areas at the Corinthian gulf and in the northwest of the Peloponesse.
		Furthermore the Dorians moved to the south and east of the Peloponesse, in the area of Megara at the Sardonic gulf, on the island Aegina in that same gulf, on the southern islands of the Aegean sea (Crete, Rhodes, and Kos), and in the southwest corner of Asia Minor.
	home6.swipnet.se /~w-63448/grekhist2.htm (1608 words)

	b. The Dorian Invasion. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		In the 12th century, the power vacuum created by the decline of Mycenaean civilization was filled by Greeks speaking the Dorian dialect, who invaded the peninsula from the north.
		The Dorians originally came from southern Macedonia, though the Greeks derived their name from the city of Doris in central Greece.
		The Dorian invasion corresponded with the start of the Iron Age in Greece, but despite the introduction of this superior metal, culture as a whole declined in Greece as a result of the Dorian invasion.
	www.bartleby.com /67/174.html (241 words)

	Sfakia People and the Dorians
		The Dorians who formed the Macedonian state came in contact with the local Pelasgic population whose size was much smaller than the one residing at the sea shores and the islands of Southern Greece.
		The Dorians settled chiefly in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, establishing strong centres in Laconia (and its capital, Sparta), Messenia, Argolís, and the region of the Isthmus of Corinth.
		According to tradition the Dorians, who came from the northwest led by those who claimed descent from Heracles (that's one of the reasons why nowadays capital of Crete is named Heraklion, the main reason is Heracles fought with the Minotaur), returned a century after their first attempt by crossing the Gulf of Corinth.
	www.sfakia-crete.com /sfakia-crete/dorians-sfakia.html (2519 words)

	DORIANS - Online Information article about DORIANS
		Of the invasion of Argolis a quite different version was already current in the 4th century.
		Here, in the 8th–6th centuries, all the Dorian states were in the hands of exclusive aristocracies, which presented a marked contrast to the subject populations.
		The social and political structure of the Dorian states of Peloponnese presupposes likewise a conquest of an older highly civilized population by small bands of comparatively barbarous raiders.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DIO_DRO/DORIANS.html (4151 words)

	Dorian
		The Dorian invasion was partly responsible for the subsequent Greek Dark Ages.
		The written record is nonexistent; the Dorian migration is documented in the mute archaeological record: widespread burning and destruction of Bronze Age sites both in Crete and the mainland of Greece, many of which were reduced to villages or abandoned, and the introduction of iron-working ended the Bronze Age in the Aegean.
		Their leaders were mythologized as the Heracleidae, the sons of the legendary hero Heracles, and the Dorian incursion into Greece in the distant past was justified in the mythic theme of the "Return of the Heracleidae".
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/Dorian.html (558 words)

	Sicyon - LoveToKnow 1911
		Besides reforming the city's constitution to the advantage of the Ionians and replacing Dorian cults by the worship of Dionysus, Cleisthenes gained renown as the chief instigator and general of the First Sacred War (5go) in the interests of the Delphians.
		From Herodotus' famous account of the wooing of Agariste it may be inferred that he held intercourse with many commercial centres of Greece and south Italy.
		In Sicyon also the art of painting was supposed to have been "invented." After the fall of the tyrants their institutions survived till the end of the 6th century, when the Dorian supremacy was re-established, perhaps by the agency of Sparta, and the city was enrolled in the Peloponnesian League.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sicyon (943 words)

	Greek Dark Ages
		During the Dorian invasions, which occurred continually on mainland Greece and down through the Peloponnese, entire villages were abandoned, and migrations occurred toward the islands of the Aegean.
		Dorian rule in many cities and villages was of either two types.
		What followed the initial invasion and rule of the Dorians and the Greek civil war, (within the years of 1200BC to 750BC) was a shift in lifestyle, centered around a moderately sedentary agricultural lifestyle.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/pre-greece/greekdarkages.html (351 words)

	Dorian Invasion
		The Greeks themselves spoke of this as the "Dorian Invasion," and that the Greeks of Doris entered Peloponnesus and conquered several of the cities there.
		Greek legend also calls this invasion the return of the grandchildren of Hercules, and says that the hero's race having been exiled by their jealous relatives now returned in the third generation and reconquered their rightful rank.
		Thus, coincident with the Dorian invasion, began the "colonizing age" of the Greeks.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Story_of_the_Greatest_Nations_and_the_Worlds_Famous_Events_Vol_1/dorianin_beb.html (678 words)

	Dorian invasion - Definition, explanation
		:''This article should be merged with Dorian The Dorian invasion more often called the Dorian migration in modern texts, is co-related with ash layers at Mycenaean sites and changes in burial practices, from Mycenaean group burials in tholos tombs to individual burials and the burning of the corpse, previously unknown.
		Considered as an invasion, the advent of the Dorians, as Greeks of the Classical age termed them, is generally advanced to explain the swift collapse of Mycenaean civilization in ancient mainland Greece.
		This Dorian invasion (beginning from ca 1150 BCE) seems to have disrupted the Bronze Age Mycenean civilization, and many Mycenean cities were toppled in the Peloponessus and elsewhere.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/do/dorian_invasion.php (338 words)

	Wikinfo \| Dorian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Dorians were one of the ancient Hellenic (Greek) tribes acknowledged by Greek writers.
		The Dorian invasion, more often called the Dorian migration in modern texts, is co-related with ash layers at Mycenaean sites and changes in burial practices, from Mycenaean group burials in tholos tombs to individual burials and the burning of the corpse, previously unknown.
		Considered as an invasion, the advent of the Dorians, as Greeks of the Classical age termed them, is generally advanced to explain the swift collapse of Mycenaean civilization in ancient mainland Greece.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dorians (589 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dorians
		He wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891), but most characteristic of his gift for dramatizing serious issues with epigrammatic wit are his plays, which include Lady...
		Dorian America and Drake America combine divisional names to form Dorian Drake International.
		One family's struggle with sickle cell disease: in the home of Dorian and Lavender Simpson, both of their children are victims of the painful blood disorder.(Interview)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dorians&StartAt=21 (861 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dorian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The hostility between Ionians and Dorians, neither regarding the other as fully Greek, appears in the contest between Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian...
		It was the traditional homeland of the Dorians, who may, in fact, have paused there during their invasion of Greece.
		He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeksâ”the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dorian&StartAt=11 (939 words)

	The Children of Herakles
		It was called a Dorian invasion because much of the Peloponnese during the Archaic period was inhabited by relative late-comers who spoke the Dorian dialect, and the return of the Herakleids because the Dorians were allied with the Herakleids in mythic versions of their arrival.
		The present state of archaeological evidence suggests that there was not a sudden invasion or great conquest, but rather a gradual movement of people speaking a Dorian dialect into different areas of the Peloponnese, and this may be why the myth of the return of the Herakleidai extends their effort over several generations.
		Aristomachos also consulted the oracle before the invasion began, and the answer he received is quoted by Eusebius: “the gods indicate victory to you by way of the narrows.” Aristomachos, figuring that the “narrow” must mean the isthmus of Corinth, attacked by this route, but he was killed and the Herakleidai were defeated.
	www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos15.htm (2236 words)

	A Gap Closed
		There is a rather vague reference to the Dorian wandering: the Dorians migrated from Thrace and, moving presumably along the Adriatic coast, crossed into the Peloponnese and occupied Sparta, becoming the progenitors of this severe and puritan tribe.
		Dorians presumably reached Crete, Latins were pushed from their homeland into Italy by newly arrived tribes—these were only a few of the migrating hordes that then moved in many directions all around the globe.
		The Minoan civilization of Crete did not succumb to the Dorians; it succumbed to the ravages of nature, and if the Dorians reached the devastated island, it was only because in desperation they looked for any room to move into, and there was nobody able or willing to defend the island from invaders.
	www.varchive.org /dag/gapp.htm (1975 words)

	The Dorian Invasion 3
		Traditionally, this "Return of the Heracleidae" takes place eighty years after the Trojan war — between 1100 and 950 bce — and is represented as the recovery by the descendants of Heracles of the rightful inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons.
		The traditional date of the "Dorian Invasion" correlates with archaeological evidence of widespread burning, destruction, or abandoning of Bronze Age sites on both Crete and the mainland in Late Helladic IIIC (1200-1050 bce), and the beginning of the Dark Ages in Greece.
		The destructions are clear, but their causes are much disputed — theories run the gamut from economic factors, to social upheaval, climatic change, or external invasion.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /thucydides_lecture/sixty_f.htm (150 words)

	Dark Age
		The traditional answer for Greece is the Dorian invasion, the arrival, from the north, of speakers of a different dialect of Greek, who ended up settled in the Peloponnese.
		But this view has few firm adherents today, in some part because the chronology doesn't seem to work: the Dorians seem to have arrived before the fall rather than before it.
		Our text favors the concept of "systems failure," the idea that Mycenaean society suffered from a collapse of one or more of its key systems, perhaps brought on by shorter term catalysts like crop failure or raiders who disrupted trade.
	www.siu.edu /~dfll/classics/Civ2004/guides/lecturenotes/dark.html (1086 words)

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		We've seen other people at their best, and they can't beat him, but me and Dorian think I'm the one guy who can.
		I want to be totally rested and excited about training and preparing.I want to get that spark back like when I won the 1993 USA and 1997 Night of the Champions.
		DORIAN YATES takes 21 year old bodybuilder phenomenon JAMES FLEX LEWIS through the brutal paces of a workout in the dark recesses of the notorious
	www.dorianyates.net /Hardtimes.html (231 words)

	The Dorian Measure, with a Modem Application: Page 1 of 2.
		The life of the pious Dorian was like his god's,—the destruction of the ugly Pythoness, and a manly endurance; nay, a joyful expiation of all the inevitable consequences of this lofty action, amid the disturbing influences of time and circumstance.
		The dances of the Dorians were intellectual in their character,—sometimes representative of historical events,—sometimes of foreign customs,—sometimes they were allegorical; in all instances, even when comic, they expressed thought, and stimulated intellectual activity; while the dances of other nations expressed the softer passions merely, and tended to immorality.
		Another consequence of the Dorian music and dance was the sculpture of Greece, which took its ideal character from the Dorians, who had Apollo for model, and the unveiled human form, beheld with a chaste delight in the gymnasium, for their school of art.
	www.walden.org /Institute/thoreau/about2/P/Peabody_ElizabethP/07_Dorian.htm (11854 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: History of Ancient Greece
		To the south is the Dorian hexapolis, consisting of Cnidus and Halicarnassus on the mainland, and the islands of Rhodes and Cos.
		If the poems are some centuries later than the Invasion, they at least prove that, within a few generations of that event, it was the belief of the Greeks of Asia Minor that their ancestors had crossed the seas after the close of the Heroic Age.
		The invasion, in its effects on wealth, commerce and civilization, is almost comparable to the irruption of the barbarians into the Roman empire.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/eb11-greece.html (22278 words)

	Dorian invasion
		Dorian The Dorian invasion is one of the theories advanced to explain the decline of the Mycenaean civilization in ancient Greece.
		The Dorians were one of the Hellenic tribes of ancient Greece.
		This Dorian invasion (beginning from ca 1150 bc) seems to have disrupted the Bronze Age Mycenean civilization, and many Mycenean cities were toppled in the Peloponessus and elsewhere.
	www.datamass.net /do/dorian-invasion.html (293 words)

	About Classical Mythology
		The Aeolians, Dorians and Ionians were descendants of Hellen's sons, Aeolus and Dorus, and Hellen's grandson Ion.
		The main concentration of the Dorians were in the regions of Isthmus of Corinth, Argolis, Laconia, Messenia, south-west of Epeirus, and on islands such as Crete, and the southern Sporades, including Cos and Rhodes.
		Writing did exist in the Bronze Age at Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece before the Dorian Invasion, known as Linear A and Linear B scripts, but this form of writing had fallen in disuse during the Dark Ages.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/aboutgreek.html (8049 words)

	Sifnos History
		In 1400 BC the explosion of Santorini destroyed the major centers of Minoan civilization the Mycenaeans became the dominant power in the area and used the islands as relay staions to the near east, replacing many of the indigenous people with Greeks.
		At about 1100 BC during the dark days of the Dorian Invasion, Sifnos was colonized by Ionians from Attika, led by their chieftan Alkenor who became the islands first sovereign.
		Dorian and I became the live music, doing a two hour show every night from June to September.
	www.greektravel.com /sifnos/history.htm (1738 words)

	Archaic Age and the Polis, Univ. of Sask.
		The Dorians were said to be the descendants of *Heracles (known today by his Latin name, Hercules — a hero celebrated by all Greeks but associated in particular with the Peloponnese).
		[FN 1] (Some scholars regard the myth of the Dorians as a distant memory of historical invaders who overthrew the Mycenaean civilization.) The Dorians were said to have conquered virtually all of Greece, with the exception of Athens and the islands of the Aegean.
		He maintains the aristocrat's firm conviction that the traditional nobility are innately superior to the common mob (the kakoi), whom he portrays as nearly sub-human — the prey of mindless passions, incapable of rational thought or reasoned political discourse.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/Polis.html (3510 words)

	Historical Introduction - Merope - Matthew Arnold, Book, etext
		The hero Hercules, the ancestor of the Messenian Aepytus, belongs to fable: but the invasion of Peloponnesus by the Dorians under chiefs claiming to be descended from Hercules, and their settlement in Argos, Lacedaemon, and Messenia, belong to history.
		Cresphontes married Merope, whose native country, Arcadia, was not affected by the Dorian invasion.
		The Dorians complained that his administration unduly favoured the vanquished people: his chief magnates, headed by Polyphontes, himself a descendant of Hercules, formed a cabal against him, in which he was slain with his two eldest sons.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/A/ArnoldMatthew/play/merope/merope001.html (1378 words)

	A Brief History of Crete
		The Dorian conquest easily showed the triumph of iron swords against copper knives, which the Myceneans were still using, but it also showed a less palatable truth, namely, that frugality and moderation of military life had vanquished the luxury and love for art which Crete had handed to the Aegean world.
		Although the Dorian invasion is dark and confused, as as concerns the unfolding the upset it carried to Crete is beyond dispute.
		New institutions make their appearance: the conquerors are divided into tribes; societies and gymnasia are established; the old inhabitants come under the sattus of serfs, and the apetairei (neither bonded nor enslaved, and excluded from the hetaireiai or societies); they dwell mainly on the eastern section of the island.
	hep.physics.uoc.gr /HistCrete.htm (10914 words)

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