The meaning of Dorian

noun

A member of a hellenic people speaking the doric dialect of greek, thought to have entered greece from the north c.1100 bc. they settled in the peloponnese and later colonized sicily and southern italy.

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Herodotus speaks of ionians, dorians, herakleeidai, and akhaians among the greeks, that is, with ag…

adjective

A member of a hellenic people speaking the doric dialect of greek, thought to have entered greece from the north c. 1100 bc. they settled in the peloponnese and later colonized sicily and southern italy.

adjective

Relating to the dorians or to doris in central greece.

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But pindar and others also assign the foundation of the games to herakles, as noted above, an attem…