The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2Müller, Karl Otfried
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The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2
Müller, Karl Otfried
Dorians -- History; Greece -- Antiquities, Dorian; Greece -- History -- Dorian Invasions, approximately 1125-1025 B.C.
115 This may be collected from the passage of Dicæarchus (which, indeed,
is much mutilated) cited in Steph. Byz. in Δώριον. It is given most
faithfully in Montfaucon’s Biblioth. Coislin. p. 286, 59.
116 Τεύταμος appears to be the correct name, the same as that of an
ancient prince of Larissa, on which the ancient Dorians bordered.
The princes of the allied nations were doubtless confounded in
tradition. See the author’s _Etrusker_, vol. I. p. 94.
117 The settlements which here come into consideration are, 1. the
immigration, after the death of Minos (in the third generation
before the siege of Troy), of various races, chiefly Hellenes,
according to Herod. VII. 170; this is a mere tradition of the towns
of Polichna and Præsus, and not a very credible one. 2. The colony
of Althæmenes after the expedition of the Heraclidæ from Argos and
Megara, and in connexion with Rhodes. 3. Dorians from Peloponnesus,
Lyctus, Lampe, and other places settled from Sparta; Pharæ a colony
of the Messenians; Gortyna of Amyclæans (Minyans); Phæstus colonized
from Sicyon; other towns from Argos (Scylax, p. 18, Diod. V. 80). 4.
Æginetans in Cydonia.
118 Strabo X. p. 475 C.
119 The Cretan cities were generally considered as Doric; Menander de
Encom. XXXII. 1, p. 81, ed. Heeren. and others.
120 Od. XIX. 175. ἄλλη δ᾽ ἄλλων γλῶσσα μεμιγμένη.
121 On this migration of the Dorians from their early settlements in the
north of Greece to Crete, see Appendix III.
_ 122 Orchomenos_, pp. 233, 234. According to Andron (Strabo X. p. 475)
they came directly from Hestiæotis under mount Parnassus. According
to Diodorus IV. 67, the Cadmeans drove out the Dorians, who then
_returned_ to Doris (Erineus, Cytinium, Boeum). Lycophron v. 1388,
might be quoted in confirmation of Herodotus, since he calls the
Dorians Λακμώνιοι (Λάκμων ὄρος Περραιβίας ἔνθα ῴκουν Δωριεῖς),
Lacmon being the name of the ridge of Pindus and the Cambunian
mountains. But Lycophron only alludes to their settlements in
Hestiæotis.
123 Il. II. 849, XXI. 159. It is to this that Herodotus alludes, when he
says that the Teucrians, to which race he refers the Pæonians, had
penetrated as far as the Peneus (see the Introduction, and Appendix
I. § 4).
124 See Appendix I. § 17.
125 Introduction, § 3; Appendix I. § 25.
126 Amphicæa near Dadja. See Leake in Walpole’s Travels, p. 509. Clarke,
p. 227. Gell, Itinerary, p. 210.
127 I here chiefly follow Dodwell, vol. II. p. 133, and Gell: compare
_Orchomenos_, p. 41. Pouqueville is completely in error. According
to him the Cephisus rises 11-1/2 hours N.E. of Artotina, which he
supposes to be Erineus, and flows from the north into the Pindus,
which river (he says) runs into the Gulph of Corinth, contrary to
all accounts of ancient writers.
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