Dorieus
historical figure · 4 works · 8 mentions · 15 anchored passages
Dorieus son of Anaxandrides · Dorieus the Rhodian · Dorieus son of Diagoras · Dorieus the son of Diagoras
spoken of as
1 expressionDorieus of Rhodes1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
It was the Olympiad at which Dorieus the Rhodian gained his second victory.
in the texts
The Histories
Son of Anaxandrides who, refusing subjection to his half-brother Cleomenes, leads failed colonizing expeditions to Libya and then Sicily, dying in battle near Croton.
Since he was of this opinion, Dorieus was very angry when at Anaxandrides ' death the Lacedaemonians followed their custom and made Cleomenes king by right of age.
The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had helped to take their city.
Now Cleomenes, as the story goes, was not in his right mind and really quite mad, while Dorieus was first among all of his peers and fully believed that he would be made king for his manly worth.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Commander of the Thurian ships sent from the Peloponnese, son of Diagoras.
The same winter, Hippocrates the Lacedaemonian, having sailed from the Peloponnese with ten Thurian ships under the command of Dorieus son of Diagoras, and two colleagues, one Laconian and one Syracusan, sailed into port at Cnidus, which had now revolted at the instigation of Tissaphernes.
and indeed against Dorieus, who was supporting the plea of his own seamen, he even lifted up his baton.
It was the Olympiad at which Dorieus the Rhodian gained his second victory.
Orations
Celebrated Rhodian athlete, multiple Olympic victor.
For it would be ridiculous if one of your citizens, that Dorieus, or Leonidas, whom they say so often won at Olympia, should train looking to some other man, and that too one never crowned.
Hellenica
A Rhodian commander who sails into the Hellespont with a squadron, is later exiled from Rhodes and Athens, becomes a citizen of Thurii, and is eventually captured and released.
Shortly after this, at the beginning of the winter, Dorieus, the son of Diagoras, sailed into the Hellespont from Rhodes with fourteen ships, arriving at daybreak.
And when the Athenians came near, the men under Dorieus fought, from their ships and from the shore, until the Athenians sailed away to Madytus, to the rest of their fleet, without having accomplished anything.
and the men who were thus taken were all imprisoned by the Athenians, but their commander, Dorieus, a Rhodian by birth, but some time before exiled from both Athens and Rhodes by the Athenians, who had condemned him and his kinsmen to death, and now a citizen of Thurii, they set free without even exacting a ransom, taking pity upon him.