Get to know Dorians better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Dorians meaning
A particular ancient Greek tribe.
Using Dorians
- The main meaning on this page is: A particular ancient Greek tribe.
- In the example corpus, dorians often appears in combinations such as: the dorians, dorians were, dorians and.
Context around Dorians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dorians
- In this selection, "dorians" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mueller, few, lives, especially and seem stand out and add context to how "dorians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aetolians and dorians the latter and anachronistic or dorians were on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dorians" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dorians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hermione was not Dorian but had joined the Dorians. (9 words)
Other than these few brief observations Thucydides names but few Dorians. (11 words)
Hall therefore proposes that the Dorians are the people of the gift. (12 words)
This invasion is viewed by the tradition of Pausanias as a return of the Dorians to the Peloponnesus, apparently meaning a return of families ruling in Aetolia and northern Greece to a land in which they had once had a share. (41 words)
Dorians were also showered on the wild, three-hour-plus epic “RRR ” for Best International Award, as well as Laura Poitras’ searing documentary about an artist and addiction, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which collected two honors. (38 words)
Whatever the historical realities reflected in these stories, the Atreids are firmly set in the epoch near the end of the Heroic Age, leading up to the arrival of the Dorians. (31 words)
Example sentences (17)
Dorians were also showered on the wild, three-hour-plus epic “RRR ” for Best International Award, as well as Laura Poitras’ searing documentary about an artist and addiction, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” which collected two honors.
The area was also once inhabited by Mycenaean Greeks during the prehistoric period while the ancient city itself was founded by the Dorians.
The longest four hours of the Dorians’ lives this spring weren’t spent dancing or practicing.
Diodorus Siculus Diodorus is a rich source of traditional information concerning the mythology and history of the Dorians, especially the Library of History.
Hall therefore proposes that the Dorians are the people of the gift.
Hence they once more removed and came to Dryopis; and from Dryopis having entered the Peloponnese in this way, they became known as Dorians.
Hermione was not Dorian but had joined the Dorians.
Ionians had been expelled from the Peloponnesus by the Dorians and had sought refuge in Athens.
Mueller:Dorians II, 192 Many Greek philosophers, especially Platonists, would often describe Sparta as an ideal state, strong, brave, and free from the corruptions of commerce and money.
Other than these few brief observations Thucydides names but few Dorians.
So the lines were drawn between the Dorians and the Aeolians (here Boeotians) with the Ionians (former Peloponnesians).
The Dorians of upland Doris A number of credible etymologies by noted scholars have been proposed.
The Dorians seem to have set about expanding the frontiers of Spartan territory almost before they had established their own state.
They represent a joint invasion of Peloponnesus by Aetolians and Dorians, the latter having been driven southward from their original northern home under pressure from the Thessalians.
This invasion is viewed by the tradition of Pausanias as a return of the Dorians to the Peloponnesus, apparently meaning a return of families ruling in Aetolia and northern Greece to a land in which they had once had a share.
Two solutions are possible, either the Odyssey is anachronistic or Dorians were on Crete in Mycenaean times.
Whatever the historical realities reflected in these stories, the Atreids are firmly set in the epoch near the end of the Heroic Age, leading up to the arrival of the Dorians.
Common combinations with dorians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: