Dorian invasion

The topic Dorian invasion is discussed in the following articles:

importance in Greek history

  • TITLE: ancient Greek civilization (historical region, Eurasia)
    SECTION: The post-Mycenaean period and Lefkandi
    ...down after something.) Thucydides does indeed display sound knowledge of the series of migrations by which Greece was resettled in the post-Mycenaean period. The most famous of these was the “Dorian invasion,” which the Greeks called, or connected with, the legendary “return of the descendants of Heracles.” Although much about that invasion is problematic—it left...

influence on Greek language

  • TITLE: Greek language
    SECTION: History and development
    There followed two great events that upset the dialectal distribution within the Greek world. First, about 1100 bc the Dorian invasions brought speakers of West Greek southward, then into the Peloponnese, and finally into the Aegean. Some pre-Dorian Greek populations were expelled from their homes and emigrated eastward to the west coast of Anatolia and to Cyprus. Others, who remained where...