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December 11th, 2012, 02:28 PM
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#1 | | Academician
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 65 | The Dorians
Can anyone reccomend to me a book about the Dorians? ty in advance.I also would like to know if you guys think that the dorian ancestry of Sicillians has anything to do with why they got the reputation they have today. I was pondering it and seemed interesting to me that usually the areas in Greece that are famous for there warriors are mostly dorian areas (Laconia/Mani, Crete,Makedonia) and that the modern descendants of these areas in Greece are usually seen as up to no good (Cretans and Maniates mainly are the examples I get). I wondered that if the shared dorian ancestry of these areas has anything to do with their behavior. Not intended to be offensive as the areas that my family comes from in Greece were all dorian areas in the ancient times.
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December 11th, 2012, 02:41 PM
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Here are a couple that I have. | | | |
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December 11th, 2012, 03:34 PM
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#3 | | Academician
Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 65 | Quote:
Originally Posted by okamido  | thank you
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December 11th, 2012, 04:54 PM
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#4 | | Historian
Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 5,625 | Quote:
Originally Posted by okamido | I am curious. Sparta being a mostly land-based power and more or less of an isolationist to boot, what is the Spartan Mediterranean?
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December 11th, 2012, 06:17 PM
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Basically the Doric Hexapolis and the Dorian over sea colonies.
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December 11th, 2012, 10:35 PM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2011 From: Scandinavia, Balkans, Anatolia & Levant Posts: 2,556 |
Just keep in mind that everything we know about their migrations 15 years and back, is outdated. So don't stick to Dorian migrations, only to the Dorian speakers.
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December 12th, 2012, 02:20 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2011 From: Balkans Posts: 1,190 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasilios I was pondering it and seemed interesting to me that usually the areas in Greece that are famous for there warriors are mostly dorian areas (Laconia/Mani, Crete,Makedonia) and that the modern descendants of these areas in Greece are usually seen as up to no good (Cretans and Maniates mainly are the examples I get). I wondered that if the shared dorian ancestry of these areas has anything to do with their behavior. Not intended to be offensive as the areas that my family comes from in Greece were all dorian areas in the ancient times. | Cretans and Maniates are not seen as up to no good in Greece
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December 12th, 2012, 06:04 AM
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#8 | | Academician
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Originally Posted by Niki86 Cretans and Maniates are not seen as up to no good in Greece | That is what many people have told me,mostly older greeks in my papous village.
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December 12th, 2012, 06:06 AM
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#9 | | Academician
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Originally Posted by Midas Just keep in mind that everything we know about their migrations 15 years and back, is outdated. So don't stick to Dorian migrations, only to the Dorian speakers. | Yea mainly planned on learning about them as people.
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December 12th, 2012, 09:50 AM
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#10 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2011 From: Balkans Posts: 1,190 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasilios That is what many people have told me,mostly older greeks in my papous village. | I'm Greek and I've never heard that, where's your grandfather's village?
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