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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: 58. Chapters: Ancient Cretans, Ancient tribes in Crete, Cretan mythology, Dorian Crete, Geography of ancient Crete, Languages of ancient Crete, Prehistoric Crete, Religion in ancient Crete, Roman Crete, Epimenides paradox, Rhea, Minotaur, Achaeans, Europa, Amalthea, Pasiphae, Korybantes, Talos, Dorians, Ariadne, Pelasgians, Doric Greek, Aerope, Pandareus, Cocalus, Dwarf elephant, Caphtor, Azoria, Syssitia, Cretan pederasty, Gortyn, Bottiaeans, Mycenaean Greek, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, Gortyn code, Talos in popular culture, Margherita Guarducci, Dictys Cretensis, Xenelasia, Dactyl, Eteocretan language, Mount Ida, Mount Juktas, Mesomedes, Dikti, Glaucus, Lentas, Hyporchema, Acacallis, Miletus, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, Creta et Cyrenaica, Androgeos, Carmanor, Foreign War, Lycastus, Agela, Boibe, Bianna, Atymnius, Orsilochus, Zeus cave, Phalaikos, Panares, Hellotia, Lasthenes, Elaea, Hybrias, Naulochus. 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, l...
