Dorians
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A major Greek ethnic group who, with the Heraclidae, took possession of the Peloponnese and later contributed settlers to Epidamnus.
) And the Dorians in the eightieth year took possession of the Peloponnese with the Heraclidae.
There were also some of the Corinthians, and of the rest of the Doric nation, who joined in the colony.
They were joined in the embassy by the Dorians also, the mother-state of the Lacedaemonians, with the same petition;
The Histories
The Dorian Greeks of the Triopian league of cities (Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, Cnidus, and formerly Halicarnassus), invoked as a parallel to Ionian exclusivity.
and those who won these were not to carry them away from the temple but dedicate them there to the god.
For this offense the five cities— Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, and Cnidus —forbade the sixth city— Halicarnassus —to share in the use of the temple.
just as the Dorians of what is now the country of the “Five Cities”—formerly the country of the “Six Cities”—forbid admitting any of the neighboring Dorians to the Triopian temple, and even barred from using it those of their own group who had broken the temple law.
Orations
A Greek people whose invasion, alongside the Heraclidae, is linked to the postwar collapse of Achaean power.
and not long after all were driven from the Peloponnese, and the race of the sons of Pelops was overthrown through that calamity, and the Heraclidae, formerly weak and dishonored, came down with the Dorians.
And later those of the Achaeans driven out by the Dorians, at a loss whither to turn through weakness, came to Asia as to friends and allies, the descendants of Priam and Hector, and settled Lesbos by their leave through friendship, and other no small regions.
For my part I count this a splendid and blessed thing, if a man can be free among slaves and independent among subjects—a thing for which the Lydians waged many wars against the Phrygians and the Phrygians against the Lydians, and the Ionians and Dorians and all the races besides waged many wars;
Panathenaicus
The invading Greek group whose divisions include Argos, Messene, and Lacedaemon, and whose absence from Athenian colonial leadership is noted.
When, then, the Dorians who invaded the Peloponnesus divided into three parts both the cities and the lands which they had taken from their rightful owners, those of them who received Argos and Messene as their portions ordered their affairs very much as did the Hellenes in general.
Another was the war connected with the founding of the colonies, in which none of the Dorians came to help them, but in which Athens, having been made the leader of those who were lacking in the means of subsistence and of all others who desired to join with her, so completely reversed the state of affairs that, whereas the barbarians had been wont in times past to seize and hold the greatest citi …
and first of all they will tell of the time when, being still Dorians, they saw their own cities to be inglorious and insignificant and in need of many things, and, feeling them to be unworthy, took the field against the leading states of the Peloponnesus—against Argos and Lacedaemon and Messene — conquered them in battle and drove the vanquished both from their cities and from their lands, and se …
Ion
The people descended from Dorus, foretold to form a famous state.
Dorus, whence the famous Dorian state will spring;
Archidamus
The ancestral ethnic group linked to the Spartans and Heraclid settlement.
but after the death of Eurystheus they fixed their habitation among the Dorians.
First, I think that I ought to explain to you in what way we acquired Messene, and for what reasons you settled in the Peloponnesus—you who from of old are Dorians.
Pythian
The Greek ethnic group whose ancestral laws (of Aegimius and Hyllus) govern the new city of Aetna.
The descendants of Pamphylus, and, truly, of the Heracleidae also, dwelling beneath the cliffs of Taÿgetus, are willing to abide forever as Dorians under the ordinances of Aegimius.
Cratylus
Greek population whose dialect form of the sun's name Socrates uses because it is clearer for etymological purposes.
I think it would be clearer if we were to use the Doric form of the name.