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  - 802 results

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1.
The Formation of the Greek People
Book by A. Jardé; Alfred A. Knopf, 1926
Subjects: Greece
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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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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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Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity
Book by Michael Patrick Gillespie; University Press of Florida, 1996
Subjects: Ambiguity In Literature, Homosexuality And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century, Wilde, Oscar--1854-1900--Criticism And Interpretation
...Whether the novels conclusion shows Dorians personal failure to sustain this duality...himself in an emblematic role similar to Dorians threatened his creative endeavors over...Lord Henry, and again reconstituted by Dorians behavior over the next two decades. From...
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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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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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Philhellenism and Antisemitism: Matthew Arnold and His German Models
Journal article by Lionel Gossman; Comparative Literature, Vol. 46, 1994
Subjects: Anti-Semitism, Arnold, Matthew, Culture, Greek civilization, History, Literary criticism
...the archaic, aristocratic Greece of the Dorians, rather than the popular and liberal Hellenism...German scholars between "manly" Aryan Dorians on the one hand, and "Asiatic Greeks of...whose relation to the severe and alien Dorians strikingly resembles that of the English...
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magazine articles on: Dorians  - 11 results

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Beauty and the Beast; Oscar Wilde's Novel Is Transposed into the Vicious World of Modern Celebrity
Magazine article by David Jays; New Statesman, Vol. 137, September 1, 2008
Subjects: Dancing--Dance reviews, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dance)--Dance reviews
...launched in a papping frenzy. Winsor charts Dorians growing confidence: a jaguar leap, a proud...creeps round the corner of the set into Dorians psyche. The doppelganger is, on paper...out the doppelgangers function: is it Dorians evil twin, acting out American Psycho...
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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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Popular Girls: A Short Story
Magazine article by Karen Shepard; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, October 2001
Subjects: Girls--Works, Short stories
...Vassar, NYU, Columbia. We stopped going to Dublin House a year ago; thats for ninth-graders. We drink on the Upper East Side, at Dorians or Fitzgeralds or JG Mellons. We know the managers. The bartenders give us free drinks. If we go to the West Side,. we go to...
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Popular Girls: A Short Story
Magazine article by Karen Shepard; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, October 2001
...Vassar, NYU, Columbia. We stopped going to Dublin House a year ago; thats for ninth-graders. We drink on the Upper East Side, at Dorians or Fitzgeralds or JG Mellons. We know the managers. The bartenders give us free drinks. If we go to the West Side, we go to...
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Olympic Self-Sacrifice
Magazine article by Paul Cartledge; History Today, Vol. 50, October 2000
Subjects: Greece--History, Olympics--History
...still only a tiny task force. Why so? Because the Spartans were an exceptionally religious people, and it happened to be the Dorians sacred month Karneios (in honour of ram-god Apollo), so they felt unable to send out a full force until the Karneia festival...
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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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Gray by Name, Grey by Nature, When It Needed to Run Wilde
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 11, 2009
...succeeded, this picture needed a young Johnny Depp to encapsulate Dorians exquisite handsomeness concealing a depraved and cruel mind...dreary, with no energy, suspense or horror. When the picture of Dorians demonic soul is finally uncovered, it resembles not so much...
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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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Also Showing
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 11, 2009
Subjects: Adventureland (Motion picture), Motion pictures, Movies, Painting, Painting (Art)
...of the new material cancels itself out. Dorians first love, Sybil (Rachel Hurd-Wood...relationship between art and life) and Dorians sudden rejection of her feels like an...maggot struggles to emerge from the painted Dorians eyeball the nightmare becomes laughable...
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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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