Doriens

According to the Greek Mythology, Zeus wanted that Héraclès reign on the country of Persée to Mycènes and Tirynthe. However, after the death of Héraclès, these cities fell between the hands from the descendants from Pélops and, during the Trojan War, Agamemnon reigned in Mycènes.

The Greeks held for a historical fact the legend according to which two generations after the Trojan War, v. 1100 front J. - C., had taken place an invasion of Greece by new people coming from North and speaking Greek, the Doriens . The latter would have accompanied wire by the hero Héraclès, the Héraclides, when they turned over in the Peloponnese to assert the heritage of their father, Tirynthe initially, then, by conquest, the whole of the Peloponnese.

This legend explained many historical facts; to start with this fact that most of Greece was occupied by Greek people speaking the doric dialect. The close relation between the doric one and the Greek of the North-West plead in favor of the legend according to which Doriens came from the North-West, Épire and the south-west of the Macedonia, then the Thessalie and the Béotie crossed, where some of them settled in this small area of named central Greece Doride, from where they left later towards the south while passing by Delphes, Naupactos in south-west and, from there, in the Peloponnese.

The tradition wants that Corinthe was one their last conquests.

The fact that the dialect arcadien remains very close to the Greek prédorien seems to indicate that the invaders doriens did not succeed in penetrating in the most moved back areas of the Arcadie.

In the second place, the States doriens had this effect of being all divided according to the three tribes of the Hyllées, the Dymanes and the Pamphyliens, which suggests a great direction of identity.

In third place, Doriens were apparently unknown time of the Trojan War and Homère does not mention them, although they occupied subsequently the territory already held, according to Homère, by Agamemnon and the Achaens, and that with Argos and Sparte they reigned on a population quasi slave of Greeks not doriens.

The invasion dorienne can also explain this historical fact to which the Greeks themselves were rather not very attentive with knowing that the quoted and the age of Greece mycénienne were destroyed by successive attacks with which the migrations beyond the seas succeeded towards the Asia Mineure, v. 1050 - 950, like by the shortage and the dispossession in Greece itself.

There is neither archaeological proof of the identity of the people which destroyed the culture mycénienne, nor tangible signs of the influence of new people. Here are which is included/understood if the invaders came from a Greek stock connected to the fringes of the world mycénien.

One as supported as there was actually no invasion dorienne, but that various groups of Greeks lived in Greece since the beginning of the culture mycénienne and that the destruction was due to episodical raids or the local insurrections of an oppressed population.

However the strong ruptures introduced by these destructors, as well as the legends themselves, plead in favor of the historicity of the invasion dorienne.

the History of the people Doriens was written by Ottfried Müller (1824 and 1844)

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