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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Dorian Crete, Dorian Hexapolis, Dorian colonies, Dorian mythology, Doric Greek, Doris, Kings of Cyrene, Doric order, Knidos, Dymas, Messene, Halicarnassus, Aegimius, Temenus, Pamphilus, Dorian invasion, Kos, Azoria, Syssitia, Dorian mode, Cretan pederasty, Battus I of Cyrene, Gortyn code, Ptolemy VIII Physcon, Kalaureia, Lindos, Xenelasia, Phlyax play, Magas of Cyrene, Arcesilaus II of Cyrene, Demetrius the Fair, Myndus, Dorus, Arcesilaus IV of Cyrene, Herakles' Children, Phaselis, Battus III of Cyrene, Locrian Greek, Battus II of Cyrene, Arcesilaus III of Cyrene, Kameiros, Ophellas, Bacchiadae, Ptolemy Apion, Hyporchema, Achaean Doric Greek, Ialysos, Battus IV of Cyrene, List of Kings of Cyrene, Arcesilaus I of Cyrene, Foreign War, Agela, Patreus, Doric hexapolis, Macistus, Pindus, Phalaikos, Hellotia, Stasimon, Hybrias, Doric Tetrapolis. Excerpt: Doric or Dorian was a dialect of ancient Greek. Its variants were spoken in the southern and eastern Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes, some islands in the southern Aegean Sea, some cities on the coasts of Asia Minor, Southern Italy, Sicily, Epirus and Macedon. Together with Northwest Greek, it forms the "Western group" of classical Greek dialects. By Hellenistic times, under the Achaean League, the Achaean Doric Koine appeared exhibiting many peculiarities common to all Doric dialects and which delayed the spread of the Attic-based Koine to the Peloponnese until the 2nd century BC. It is widely accepted that Doric originated in the mountains of Epirus and Macedonia, northwestern Greece, the original seat of the Dorians. It was expanded to all other regions during the Dorian invasion (c. 1150 BC) and the colonisations that followed. The presence of a Doric state (Doris) in central Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, led to the theory that Doric had originated in northwest Gree...
