DORIANS

people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically derived from Dorus, son of Hellen. Originating in the northwestern mountainous region of Epirus and SW Macedonia, they migrated through central Greece and into the Peloponnesus probably between 1100 and 950 b.c., defeating and displacing the Achaeans. They rapidly extended their influence to Crete and established colonies in Italy, Sicily, and Asia Minor. Sparta and Crete are generally considered as having had the most typical form of Dorian rule—the invaders maintained their separate societies and subjected and enslaved the conquered population. The arrival of the Dorians marked the disruption of the earlier Greek culture and the beginning of a period of decline. Although the cultural level of the Dorians was below that of the Achaeans, the Dorians did contribute to the culture of Greece, e.g., in drama, poetry, sculpture, and especially in the huge stone buildings that marked the beginning of the Doric style of architecture.

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books on: Dorians  - 800 results

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Athens: With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
Book by Oswyn Murray, Edward Bulwer Lytton; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--History
...Achaeans Pelasgic contrast between Dorians and Ionians Amphictyonic League...Athens: his Prussian racially defined Dorians lacked any appeal to the British urban...xx. Here note the reference to "Mullers Dorians". It is clear that the later authority...
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The Formation of the Greek People
Book by A. Jardé; Alfred A. Knopf, 1926
Subjects: Greece
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Lectures on Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus: Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians - Vol. 1
Book by B. G. Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz; Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852
Subjects: History, Ancient
...225 THE DORIANS. Genealogy of the...Original seats of the Dorians 227...Extension of the Dorians 260...
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Ancient Greece: A Sketch of Its Art, Literature & Philosophy
Book by H. B. Cotterill; Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913
Subjects: Art--Greece, Greece--History, Greek Literature--History And Criticism, Philosophy, Ancient
...first Olympiad, or the invasion of the Dorians, or even the first coming of those Achaeans...Pelasgians, and the evidently later Dorians. At the beginning of his history Thucydides...Tiryns are very likely due to the later Dorians, of whom we shall hear ere long. The...
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The Spartan Tradition in European Thought
Book by Elizabeth Rawson; Clarendon Press, 1991
Subjects: Europe--Civilization, Spartanism
...still means primarily valour , of the Dorians of the Peloponnese, so schooled by wisdom...Aegimius, the legendary ancestor of the Dorians. 2 When, as we shall see, the political...Peloponnesian and Dorian, the idea that the Dorians had a particular character, especially...
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journal articles on: Dorians  - 38 results

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Hard Science, Soft Psychology, and Amorphous Art in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'
Journal article by Heather Seagroatt; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: Art and science--Analysis, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wilde, Oscar--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Dorian Gray Wilde figures Harrys (and Dorians) dilettantism as a passion for scientific...science and art? By examining Harrys and Dorians research within the context of late Victorian...fruitful results" (p. 84). Every aspect of Dorians life and character "made him a more interesting...
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"Culture and Corruption": Paterian Self-Development versus Gothic Degeneration in Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray
Journal article by Nils Clausson; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 39, 2003
Subjects: English literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wilde, Oscar
...Gothic tale of degeneration, of seeing Dorians emerging homosexuality, along with his...chapters of Dorian Gray focus on the innocent Dorians awakening, under the twin influences of...central element of that development is Dorians discovery of his own homosexuality. (3...
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Character Design in the Picture of Dorian Gray
Journal article by Sheldon W. Liebman; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999
Subjects: Literature, Modern--19th century, Moral conditions--Analysis, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...merging" of these two faculties. And Dorians fate, Baker continued, is a result of...matter of good vs. evil and, second, that Dorians failure to integrate his opposing "selves...Sometimes "a complex personality," like Dorians, gives him an opportunity to examine the...
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The Platonic Eros of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: "Love's Reflected Image" in the 1890s
Journal article by Gerald Monsman; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 45, 2002
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Gaston de Latour (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Love in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Love--Criticism and interpretation, Love--Portrayals, Pater, Walter--Criticism and interpretation, Self love--Criticism and interpretation, Self love--Portrayals, Self-love in literature--Criticism and interpretation, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation
...ending with Hallwards assertion that Dorians personality "has suggested to me an entirely...Wilde seemingly had summed up the moral of Dorians downfall in exactly these Paterian and...renunciation, brings its own punishment." (62) If Dorians "great renunciation" (63) is to spare...
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Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray and Lady Windermere's Fan
Journal article by Christopher S. Nassaar; The Explicator, Vol. 54, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...earlier works of his. In Dorian Gray , Dorians development mirrors the drift of Victorian...being cast in the mold of social comedy. Dorians first stage, childlike innocence, is embodied...Paters Mona Lisa , decadence, and Dorians picture after its corruption. But Windermere...
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When Turks Civilized the World: Clive Foss Looks at the Way in Which Kemal Ataturk Rewrote History as Part of His Radical Modernization of the Turkish Nation
Magazine article by Clive Foss; History Today, Vol. 55, August 2005
Subjects: Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal--Works, Historical revisionism--Usage, Historical revisionism--Works, The Turkish History Thesis (Book), Turks--History
...Ionia (Iyon) could be claimed; so, somehow, could the Torlar (Dorians) who occupied Greece around 1200 BC. The Iyonlar were heirs...the Aryans, descended into Iran and India. Later, the Nordic Dorians took over Greece, eventually followed the Macedonians and Romans...
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A Whole Earth Forum of Compassionate Linguists
Magazine article by Nicole Parizeau, Kenneth Hale; Whole Earth, Spring 2000
Subjects: Language and culture--Forecasts, Language and languages--Forecasts, Linguists--Forecasts
...language death is precisely the kind of abnormal situation in which the basic structure or a language does get eroded. See Nancy Dorians Investigating Obsolescence, page 12. Don Ringe, author of On the Chronology of Sound Changes in Tocharian (Eisenbrauns, 1993...
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Not Green, Not Red, Not Pink: Oscar Wilde Cannot Be Simplified into an Irish Rebel, a Subversive Socialist, or a Gay Martyr
Magazine article by Geoffrey Wheatcroft; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, May 2003
Subjects: Dramatists, English, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation
...dull, and he had the gift--not granted to some finer and deeper minds--of holding the reader. But the nonsense of it! Not just Dorians naughty exoticism, but the clunking melodrama. And the dialogue! Although Wilde said that "Basil Hallward is what I think...
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Dorian Gray by Matthew Bourne
Magazine article by Margaret Willis; Dance Magazine, Vol. 82, November 2008
Subjects: Dorian Gray (Play)--Theater reviews, Theater--Theater reviews
...both men, but without any emotional reaction. Bourne has made gender changes to two of Wildes original characters, those of Dorians other lovers. Sybil Vane, the Shakespearean actress, is now a ballet dancer called Cyril (danced with foppish recklessness...
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The War to Begin All Wars
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003
Subjects: Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Analysis, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--History, Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC--Social aspects, Thucydides--Works, War--Analysis, War--History, War--Public opinion, War--Social aspects
...than the three decades of intramural fighting between Athens and Sparta: a land versus maritime power; the starkness of the Dorians contrasted with Ionian liberality; oligarchy pitted against democracy; ostentatious wealth set against practiced dearth; a...
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newspaper articles on: Dorians  - 26 results

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Rugby Union: Dorian's Welsh Links Go West.; THE BIG SIX NATIONS COUNTDOWN: WALES V ENGLAND - THREE DAYS TO GO: ENGLAND HOOKER WREXHAM-BORN
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 31, 2001
Rugby Union: Dorians Welsh Links Go West.; THE BIG SIX NATIONS COUNTDOWN: WALES V ENGLAND - THREE DAYS TO GO: ENGLAND HOOKER WREXHAM-BORN. Byline...
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They're All Russian over to Damion's Bar; Allan Hall's Irish Eye
Newspaper article by Allan Hall; The Mirror (London, England), February 1, 1997
...New York. About 2,000 of them are what youd call "Irish" with names like Kennedys, Murphys, Costellos, Eamonn Dorans and Dorians Red Hand. At the other end of the scale there are a handful of Russian bars. And only one of them can boast an Irish bartender...
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Performer Sparks Wish to Be in Oscar Wilde Story
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), August 10, 2009
Subjects: Hobson, David L., Wilde, Oscar
...Gray, though not as the main character - who really wants to be that depraved and wicked. But perhaps someone just outside Dorians circle in Victorian England, who visits their stuffy club in the afternoon, then dines with a disapproving great aunt suitably...
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Irish Raise Cash for Family of Coma Fan
Newspaper article by Jason Lamport; The Mirror (London, England), April 5, 2000
...to Ireland for the Six Nations trip with him were back on Welsh soil. Lifelong friend Brendan AHearne told how he cradled Dorians blood- soaked skull in his hand just minutes after he was attacked. And another pal told how painter and decorator Dorian...
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TRAGIC FAN DIES IN HIS FIANCEE'S ARMS; Coma Man Loses Fight
Newspaper article by Jason Lamport; The Mirror (London, England), April 11, 2000
...Dominican Republic for a sun-kissed honeymoon. Last night Donnas tearful brother Michael said his sister was "shattered" by Dorians death. A friend said pal Brendan AHearne - one of five who went on the doomed trip - "cried like a baby" after begging his...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dorians  - 15 results

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Dorians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DORIANS people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically...and enslaved the conquered population. The arrival of the Dorians marked the disruption of the earlier Greek culture and...a period of decline. Although the cultural level of the Dorians was below that of the Achaeans, the Dorians did contribute...
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Doris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mountainous district, central Greece, inland between the Gulf of Corinth and the Malian Gulf. It was the traditional homeland of the Dorians, who may, in fact, have paused there during their invasion of Greece. Sparta gave Doris military aid during the 5th cent. b...
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Greek Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Gate at Mycenae and palaces at Mycenae and Tiryns. When the Dorians migrated into Greece (before 1000 b.c.) true Hellenic culture...borrowed little from the preceding civilizations. In Greece the Dorians developed their building forms with such rapidity that between...
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Hellen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...
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MÉgara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the ancient town of Megara, the capital of Megaris, a small district between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf. The Dorians who succeeded the earliest known inhabitants made Megara a wealthy city by means of maritime trade, and they founded many...
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