About the population of ancient Greece the Armenian band Dorians band other uses Dorian disambiguation ... where the Doric dialect was spoken. The Dorians lang grc , D rieis , singular lang grc ... always referenced as just the Dorians , as they are in the earliest literary mention of them ... on the assistance of other Dorian states. Dorians were distinguished by the Doric Greek dialect and by characteristic social and historical traditions. In the 5th century BC, Dorians and Ionians were ... did motivate fifth century actions. ref cite journal last Alty first John title Dorians ... to the traditional modern interpretation of Dorians . ref cite book first E.N. last Tigerstedt title ... 1965 1978 pages 28 36 ref Origin of the Dorians Accounts vary as to their place of origin. One theory ... of the Dorians is a multi faceted concept. In modern scholarship the term often has meant the location ... classical times more generally, the distribution of the Dorians in Classical Greece the presence of the Dorians in Greece at all On the whole, none of the objectives were met, but the investigations ... in the Peloponnesus remains unattested by any solid evidence. Post migrational distribution of the Dorians ... n cities of Asia Minor. The Dorians also invaded Crete . These origin traditions remained strong into classical times Thucydides saw the Peloponnesian War in part as Ionians fighting against Dorians ... coasts of Sicily from Syracuse to Selinus. EB 1911 . Dorian identity Name of the Dorians a section ... by the Dorians. ref cite book first Michael last Ventris first2 John last2 Chadwick title Documents ... D ris, the only classical Greek state to serve as the basis for the name of the Dorians. The state ... not have been the same as Mycenaean Doris. The Dorians of upland Doris File Ancient Greece hoplite with his ... to safeguard the gift until his decendants might claim it. Hall therefore proposes that the Dorians .... Hall does not address the problem of the Dorians not calling Lacedaemon Doris, but assigning that name ... more details
Infobox musical artist See Wikipedia WikiProject Musicians name Dorians Img Dorians Band.jpg caption image size 250 landscape Yes background group or band origin Yerevan , Armenia genre Rock years active 2008 present website URL http www.dorians.am current members Gor Sujyan br Gagik Khodavirdi br Arman Pahlevanyan br Edgar Sahakyan br Arman Jalalyan The Dorians is a rock band from Armenia . It was founded in June, 2008 by Vahagn Gevorgyan who is the current producer of the band. In February, 2009 the band performed at the first qualifying round of Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Armenia, after which it gained its popularity. History In April, 2009 the band won the Best Newcomer award at Tashir Music Awards in Moscow. In June, 2009 the band had its major concert and celebrated its first anniversary in Yerevan. The meeting with the legendary musicians Ian Gillan Deep Purple and Tony Iommi Black Sabbath within the frames of the project Rock Aid Armenia inspired and motivated the band to organize a charity concert for the reconstruction of a music school in Gyumri, Armenia. In November, 2010 the band performed four solo concerts in Moscow. In 2011, the Dorians won the Best Rock Band , ref http v2.maltaeurovision2011.com glen vella at the armenian national music awards Glen Vella at the Armenian National Music Awards ref the Best Video and the Best Vocal awards in the National Music Awards ceremony in Armenia. In April, 2011 the band recorded its first album, which was mixed in Brussels at the ICP Studios, and the mastering was done at the Translab mastering studio in Paris. In August, 2011 the Dorians was invited to perform at the opening act of Serj Tankian s System Of A Down concert in Yerevan. ref http www.amcham.am index.cfm?objectid 584CDA20 D526 11E0 82BA0003FF3452C2 Serj Tankian Performs Open Air Concert in Yerevan , http www.y1.am ... rock Armenia stub Europe band stub eo Dorians hy ru Dorians ... more details
a man s name. ref one of the regions invaded and subjected by the Dorians. Whether it had the ethnic meaning of the Dorian is unknown. Modern derivations of Dorians do not depend on a figure of Dorus see Dorians Name of the Dorians Name of the Dorians . Centuries later, the figure of Dorus ... . ref to cross over to the island, we are told, were Dorians, under the leadership of Tectamus the son of Dorus and the account states that the larger number of these Dorians was gathered ... their home among the Dorians. ref http www.theoi.com Text DiodorusSiculus4C.html Diodorus, IV.58.6 ... more details
Pamphylus lang el , a son of Aegimius and brother of Dymas , was king of the Dorians at the foot of mount Pindus , and along with the Heracleidae invaded Peloponnesus. Apollod. ii. 8. 3 Paus. ii. 28. 3 Pind. Pytli. i. 62. After him, a tribe of the Sicyon ians was called Pamphyli. References SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Pamphilus Mythology Category Dorian mythology Greek myth stub el es P nfilo mitolog a pt P nfilo mitologia ru ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2007 Kalamydi is an ancient Dorians Dorian city in north west Crete . It s located near Paleochora in Chania prefecture , near the estuary of Kakodikianos river. There are also ruins of a Roman house at Trochaloi . Coord missing Greece Category Archaeological sites in Crete Category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Greece Category Populated places in Ancient Greece Category Former populated places in Greece Crete geo stub Ancient Greece stub Euro archaeology stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Preugenes Greek was a Greek mythology mythical king of Achaea in Greece . He was a descendant of the Lacedaemonian king and persecuted by the relatives of the Dorians Doric tribes during the 11th century BC , they came with his army in Achaea and seeka place to establish. Together they were along with other Achaeans descendants of the kings of Argos and also they had been removed from the Dorians. There, they sieged the residents of Ions from the area and where they closed in Helike , they know and divided Achaea into six kingdoms, Preugenes ruled the east and the larger part and became the first king of the area. He succeeded the son of Patreas , the colonist of Patras . He knew he was a founder of the celebration of the Artemis Limnatis. In those times think there were two colonists of Patras. References The first version of the article is translated and is based from the el article at the Greek Wikipedia el el Main Page External links http www.csulb.edu dbouvier Entities i1276.htm Category Ancient Greeks Category Greek mythology Category Patras el ru ... more details
Distinguish2 the region of Doris Greece Doris in central Greece Infobox bodyclass geography abovestyle background DEB887 subheader Ancient Region of Anatolia above Doris image File mausoleumHALICARNASSUS.JPG 300px The ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World caption The ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos , one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World label1 Location data1 South western Anatolia label2 State existed data2 Independent city states from c.1100&ndash c.560 BC label3 Biggest city data3 Halicarnassus label4 Roman provinces Roman province data4 Asia Roman province Asia data8 File Anatolia Ancient Regions base.svg 300px Location of Doris in Anatolia Doris Greek language Greek lang grc was a small region of ancient Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians the territory is now in modern day Turkey . Pliny the Elder Pliny v. 28 says, Caria mediae Doridi circumfunditur ad mare utroque latere ambiens , by which he means that Doris is surrounded by Caria on all sides, except where it is bordered by the sea. He makes Doris begin at Cnidus . In the bay of Doris he places Leucopolis , Hamaxitus , etc. An attempt has been made among scholars to ascertain which of two bays Pliny calls Doridis Sinus , the more probable being the Ceramic Gulf . This Doris of Pliny is the country occupied by the Dorians, which Thucydides ii. 9 indicates, not by the name of the country, but of the people Dorians, neighbours of the Carians. Ptolemy v. 2 makes Doris a division of his Asia , and places in it Halicarnassus , Ceramus , and Cnidus . The term Doris, applied to a part of Asia, does not appear to occur in other writers. References SmithDGRG Historical regions of Anatolia Ancient Greece topics AncientGreece stub coord missing Turkey Category Ancient Greek sites in Turkey Category Historical regions of Anatolia Category Caria Category Ancient Greeks in Caria Category Doris Greece Category Greek Anatolia el it Doride Asia ... more details
Dorian may refer to TOCright Dorians , a population of ancient Greece Dorian invasion , a hypothetical population movement of Hellenic Dorians Geography Dorian Bay , a cove in Antarctica Dorian Pentapolis , five cities of ancient Greece Last names of real people Joanne Dorian born 1942 , American actress Nancy Dorian , American linguist Shane Dorian born 1972 , American surfer Lee Dorrian born 1968 , English singer Paul Dorian , physician Steven Dorian , American singer Charles Dorian , American actor Music Dorian mode , one or more musical modes Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 , an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, often referred to by the nickname dorian Dorian , a song by Demons and Wizards from their album Touched by the Crimson King Dorian Turkish rock band Dorian Concept , a music producer Ukrainian Dorian scale , a musical mode Dorian Scottish rock band Dorian Spanish pop band Dorians band , from Armenia Dorian Recordings , a label noted for early music recordings Miscellanea Dorian Gray syndrome , a medical condition Dorian name Dorina name A Portrait of Dorian Gray , photographic illustrations Dorian Lord Dorian Lord Buchanan , or Dorian Cramer Lord Buchanan a fictional character from the American Soap Opera, One Life to Live Martin Myst re Operation Dorian Gray , video game Dorian, an Imitation , a novel by Will Self Dorian Society , a homosexual club Dorian Blues , a film Dorian Hawkmoon , a fictional character See also Doric disambiguation Dorian Gray disambiguation The Picture of Dorian Gray disambiguation disambig cs Dorian de Dorian fr Dorian hu Dori n ja pl Dorian ... more details
, southern Thessaly , the Locris Ozolian Locrians , and Phocis the original homeland of the Dorians .... ref The Dorians, however, did not confine themselves within these narrow limits, but occupied other places along Mount Oeta. Thus Strabo describes the Dorians of the tetrapolis as the larger part of the nation ... meant the country once inhabited by the Dryopes . The Dorians would appear at one time to have ..., viii. 31, 43. ref It derived its name from the Dorians, who migrated from this district to the conquest of Peloponnesus . Hence the country is called the Metropolis of the Peloponnesian Dorians ref .... ref Thucydides i. 107, iii. 92. ref Origin of the name The Dorians were supposed to have derived ... Dorians. By this description is evidently meant the whole country along the northern shore of the Corinthian ... tale that the Dorians crossed over from Naupactus to the conquest is in accordance with the legend ... period the whole of the eastern and southern parts of Peloponnesus were in the possession of Dorians ... , Troezen , and Ermioni Hermione , the last of which, however, was inhabited by Dryopes, and not by Dorians. In the Saronic gulf , Aegina was peopled by Dorians. South of the Argive territory was Laconia , and to its west Messenia , both ruled by Dorians the river Neda river Neda , which separated ... to any Doric population in Peloponnesus. In fact the name of the Dorians occurs only once in Homer ... the Peloponnesus the Dorians spread over various parts of the Aegean Sea Aegean and its connected ... colonies in historic times. Corinth, the chief commercial city of the Dorians, colonised Corcyra ... the Elder Pliny ref Pliny iv. 7. s. 13 comp. M ller Dorians , book i. c. 2 Leake, Northern Greece ... more details
Doric may refer to Doric Greek , the dialects of the Dorians Doric order , a style of ancient Greek architecture Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode Doric dialect Scotland Doric Club , a paramilitary organization which fought against the Lower Canada Rebellion Doric Organ , a 1960s Combo organ produced in Italy SS Doric 1883 SS Doric 1883 , a British ocean liner operated by White Star Line SS Doric 1923 SS Doric 1923 , another ship operated by White Star Line See also Dorian disambiguation , a synonym disambiguation da Dorisk de Dorisch es D rico it Dorico nl Dorisch no Dorisk th simple Doric ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 The Siceliotes singular and adjectival form Siceliot , formed a distinct ethno cultural group in Sicily from about the 8th century BCE until their assimilation into the general Sicilian population. As Ancient Greece Hellenic colonies in antiquity colonist s often reputedly of Dorians Doric origin and descendants of colonists from Greece , they spoke Ancient Greek Greek and participated in the wider cultural and political activities of Magna Graecia and of the Hellenic world as a whole. The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continued to see a distinction between the Siceliotes the descendants of Greek settlers and the non Greek inhabitants of Sicily. Compare Italiotes and Sicels . Coord missing Italy Category Tribes of Sicily Category Sicilian Greeks Ethno stub es Siciliotas fr Sic liotes it Sicelioti scn Sicilioti ... more details
Update EB date January 2011 Image Molding ovulo.svg frame Ovulo molding and resulting shadow pattern Ovolo or ovulo in architecture , is a wikt convex convex molding decorative molding known also as the echinus, which in Classical architecture was invariably wood carving carved with the egg and dart ornament. The molding is called a quarter round by woodworkers. Not to be confounded with the echinus of the Dorians Dorian capital, as this was of a more varied form and of much larger dimensions than the ovolo, which was only a subordinate molding. See also Molding decorative 1911 Category Ornaments element arch stub it Ovolo architettura ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 otheruses2 Plaka Image Plaka Lassithi .jpg 250px thumb Plaka Plaka is a village in Lasithi , Crete . It is part of the community Vrouchas , in the municipal unit Agios Nikolaos, Crete Agios Nikolaos . It neighbours the town of Elounda and is close to the historical island of Spinalonga . In the vicinity are the ancient cities now in ruins of Olous and Lato , which Dorians Dorian settlements were frequently in conflict with each other over territory disputes. Tourist boats depart from Plaka to Spinalonga on a daily basis. The one way boat passage requires approximately ten minutes. Coord 35.299 25.728 display title Category Populated places in Lasithi Crete geo stub pt Plaka Lasithi uk ... more details
In Greek mythology , Carnus was a seer from Acarnania . According to the poetess Praxilla , he was a son of Zeus and Europa mythology Europe . He was reared by Leto and Apollo , and is also known to have been a lover of Apollo. Carnus accompanied the Heracleidae , and was killed by Hippotes with a spear for giving obscure prophecies. Apollo then struck the Dorians with plague having consulted an oracle, they banished Hippotes from their camp and established a cult of Apollo Carneius to propitiate the god. References Pausanias , Description of Greece , 3. 13. 4 5 Conon mythographer Conon , Narrations , 26 Scholia on Theocritus , Idyll 5, 83 Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category Offspring of Zeus Category Mythological Greek seers ... more details
In Greek mythology , Thoas was a son of Ornytion and a grandson of Sisyphus . According to Pausanias , Thoas remained in Corinth as successor to his father s power, whereas his brother Phocus led a colony to Tithorea . Thoas was father of Damophon, Damophon of Propodas, and Propodas of Doridas and Hyantidas. During the reign of the latter two Corinth was seized by the Dorians under command of Aletes, son of Hippotes Aletes . The brothers handed the power over Corinth over to him and were allowed to remain in the city, while the rest of the people were expelled. ref Pausanias , Description of Greece , 2. 4. 3 ref ref Scholia on Euripides , Orestes play Orestes , 1087 ref References reflist Rulers of Corinth Greek myth stub Category Greek mythology Category Corinthian mythology ... more details
in the other countries. This conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, commonly called the Return ... inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons. The Dorians followed the custom of other Greek tribes ... by Aetolians and Dorians, the latter having been driven southward from their original northern ... were a Dorians Doric or Illyrian tribe Illyrian tribe of Dalmatia Roman province Dalmatia , of whom ... Pindar , Pythia ix. 137 Herodotus ix. 27 Otfried M ller M ller , Dorians, I. ch. 3 Thirlwall , History ... more details
NOTOC Wiktionary Doris may refer to Geography Doris Asia Minor , region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians Doris Greece , region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland Doris, Iowa , USA People Doris, mother of Antipater son of Herod I Doris mythology of Greek mythology, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys Doris singer , a Swedish rock and pop singer Doris and Mabel Shrek Doris and Mabel Shrek , fictional characters in the Shrek film series Doris Day Doris Leuthard , member of the Swiss Federal Council and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs of Switzerland since 2006 Doris Miller , the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross Doris Roberts , an American actress famous for playing Marie Barone, mother of Raymond Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond Doris Dragovi , a Yugoslav and Croatian pop singer Ennio Doris , an Italian billionaire Ships Doris Sailing yacht Doris Sailing yacht , an America s Cup type racing yacht built in 1905 Doris submarine Doris submarine , a French submarine commissioned in 1928 and sunk in 1940 HMS Doris , various ships of the British Royal Navy USS Doris B. III SP 733 , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 USS Doris B. IV SP 625 , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 Other 48 Doris , an asteroid discovered in 1857, traditionally classified as a minor planet Doris gastropod Doris gastropod , genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Dorididae DORIS geodesy , a French system used for satellite orbit positioning Doris opera Doris opera , an 1889 opera by Alfred Cellier See also Lookfrom Doris Nudibranch , e.g. orange peel doris disambiguation bg br Doris ca Doris da Doris de Doris el fr Doris hr Doris it Doride la Doris nl Doris ja no Doris nn Doris pl Doris sh Doris sv Doris olika betydelser ... more details
No footnotes article date March 2008 Spartan Constitution The perioeci , or perioikoi , were the members of an self governance autonomous group of free but non citizen inhabitants of Sparta . Concentrated in the beach and highland areas of Laconia , the name derives from peri , around, and lang grc oikos , dwelling, house. They were the only people allowed to travel to other cities, which the Spartans were not, unless given permission. Origin Achaeans Homer Achaeans who had been invaded by the Dorians where the Achaeans of the plains became helot s, the perioeci were also Dorians however when the Dorians settled in Laconia there were five different groups of Dorians who rose to power. The Spartans rose to become the most powerful of these five colonies and defeated the others the others then became the Perioeci. There was another theory that they were settled from Lacedaemon , thus being analogous to the Roman colony History colonies however, Messenia was one exception to this theory, and it became difficult over time to believe that Sparta could found hundreds of perioecid villages. were there Perioeci in Messenia? Status Under the rule of Sparta, the perioeci belonged to the Lacedaemon ian State, subject to the suzerain ty of Sparta but not Spartan citizens. If their free status was not the object of controversy, the situation was unclear concerning the precise nature of their subject status within Sparta versus the status of allied cities and the strangers. In the same way, their political and social organization was quite poor. Their territory, the Perioikis , formed part of their territory within Sparta itself. Their villages were described as poleis by Herodotus VII, 234 , Xenophon Hellenica , VI, 5, 21 and Thucydides V, 54, 1 . It can be noted that their poleis acted as a sort of buffer around Sparta, shielding it from outside influence and to some extent to present a form wall to the helots preventing escape and enforcing disci ... more details
Wiktionary mime The word mime is used to refer to a mime artist who uses a theatrical medium or performance art involving the acting out of a story through body motions without use of speech. Mime may also refer to Lip sync Mime , an alternative word for lip sync MIME , Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions The character Mime in Richard Wagner s Der Ring des Nibelungen . Mime character class , a type of character in the Final Fantasy series of role playing games Mime Happy Tree Friends , a fictional character in the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends Mime , a style of Dorians Dorian Greek poetry also called mime iambic . Sophron and Herodas were two major authors of them M.I.M.E initialism for Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Mime, a unit of imitation in the theory of Symbiosism disambig da Mime de Mime es Mime fr Mime homonymie id Mime nl Mime no Mime pt Mime ... more details
Oinochori lang el , meaning village of wine , before 1927 Ano Kaniani ref http pandektis.ekt.gr pandektis handle 10442 171394 Name changes of settlements in Greece ref is a small village 2001 population 114 in the municipal unit of Gravia , Phocis , Greece . It is located at an altitude of approximately 900 meters on the slope of Mount Mount Oeta Oiti . Ruins just outside the village are thought to be from the Dorians Dorian or pre Dorian city of Dryopis . External links http www.fokida.gr site categories prefokida municipalities Gravia.csp www.fokida.gr Brief information on the municipal unit of Gravia el icon http www.statistics.gr gr tables monimos2001.htm population information http www.gravia.gov.gr index.php?option com content&task view&id 110&Itemid 200 www.gravia.gov.gr Information about Oinochori el icon References Reflist Gravia coord 38.703 22.357 display title Category Populated places in Phocis CGreece geo stub ... more details
Hellotia was an epithet of Athena at Corinth . Hellotia also refers to the goddess Europa mythology Europa , known as Hellotis in Crete , where she was honoured with the Hellotia festival. According to the scholiast on Pindar Ol. xiii. 56 , the name was derived from the fertile marsh Elos disambiguation elos near Marathon , where Athena had a sanctuary or from Hellotia, one of the daughters of Timander , who fled into the temple of Athena when Corinth was burnt down by the Dorians , and was destroyed in the temple with her sister Eurytione . Soon after, a plague broke out at Corinth, and the oracle declared that it should not cease until the souls of the maidens were propitiated, and a sanctuary should be erected to Athena Hellotis. Hellotis was also a surname of Europe in Crete, where the Cretan Hellotia festival was celebrated in honour of the Phoenicia Phoenician princess, and goddess, Hellotis being another name for Europa mythology Europa , and for whom Europe is named. References SmithDGRBM Category Epithets of Athena Category Corinthian mythology Category Festivals in Ancient Greece Category Dorian Crete Category Dorian mythology ... more details
Caryanda lang el lang grc was an ancient city on the coast of Caria in southwestern Anatolia . Caryanda was situated on a bay on the north coast of the Bodrum Peninsula in what is today the Turkey Turkish tourist resort town of Turkbuku . Greek geographer Strabo mentions Caryanda as being between the Carian coastal cities of Bargylia and Myndus ref Strabo, Geography 14.2.20 ref . Caryanda was approximately 19 km north of the Dorians Dorian Greek city of Halicarnassus , the dominant city of the peninsula. Scylax of Caryanda , one of the most famous mariners and explorers of ancient times, was a native of Caryanda. He lived in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC and served the Persia Persian king Darius I ref Herodotus, History 4.44 ref . Caryanda was a member of the Athens Athenian dominated Delian League during the 5th century BC. References reflist Ancient settlements in Turkey Category Caria Category Mu la Province Category History of Mu la Province Category Ancient Greek sites in Turkey Category Former populated places in Turkey ca Caryanda es Carianda ... more details
that owned them, the Dorians . Greek legend asserted that the Dorians took possession of the Peloponnesus ... not well elucidated. The Dorians colonised a number of sites on Crete such as Lato . ref cite ... of invasion. There is, however, a distinction between Heracleidae and Dorians. George Grote ... this moment the Herakleids and Dorians became intimately united together into one social communion ... left 300px 6th century cup from Laconia , the very center of the classical Dorians, representing Nike ... words exactly fit the return, as they imply an incursion from outside a society to within but the Dorians ... harvnb M ller 1830 p 107 . ref and the invasian of the Dorians ref harvnb M ller 1830 p 97 . ref to translate M ller s Die Einwanderung von den Doriern literally the migration of the Dorians , ref harvnb ... asserts ref harvnb M ller 1830 p 1 . ref bquote The Dorians derived their origin der Ursprung des ... BC and Dorians at about 1200 BC came to swoop down on an increasingly less aboriginal Greece as three ... united in an effort to locate the Dorians further north than Greece. The idea was combined with a view ... to search for the Dorians in other quarters. M ller s common ancestor of Greek and Latin had vanished ... the telltale track of the Dorians must be recognized in the fire scarred ruins of all the great ... the Dorian invasion to 1200 BC. A destruction by Dorians has its own problems as discussed in the next ... Chadwick title Who were the Dorians? journal Parola del Passato volume 31 pages 103 117 year 1976 Chadwick ... Age in Greece ref there was no Dorian invasion. The palaces were destroyed by Dorians who ... been sparsely populated or almost deserted. The problem is that there are no traces of any Dorians ... Peloponnesian society depicted by Homer and the historical Dorians of classical Greece. The first scholars ... Proto geometric and Geometric art Geometric . The most successful, the Geometric, seems to fit the Dorians ... territory. It is more to be associated with Athens , an Ionian state. Still, the Dorians did share ... more details
File Kodros Schale.png thumb Codrus on a Attic red figure cup of Bologna Codrus Greek alphabet Greek lang grc was the last of the semi mythical King of Athens Kings of Athens r. ca 1080s BC 1089 1060s BC 1068 BC . He was an ancient exemplar of patriotism and self sacrifice. He was succeeded by his son Medon, who it is claimed ruled not as king but as the first Archon of Athens . Aristotle , however, in the Constitution of Athens states an alternative view that Medon was also King of Athens rather than first Archon ref Aristotle Constitution of Athens 3 ref . The earliest version of the story of Codrus comes from the 4th oration Against Leocrates by Lycurgus of Athens Lycurgus . ref Lycurgus Against Leocrates 84 87 ref During the time of the Dorians Dorian Invasion of Peloponnesus c. 1060s BC 1068 BC , the Dorians under Aletes, son of Hippotes Aletes had consulted the Delphic Oracle , who prophesied that their invasion would succeed as long as the king was not harmed. The news of this prophecy, that only the death of an Athens Athenian king would ensure the safety of Athens , quickly found its way to the ears of Codrus. In devotion to his people, Codrus disguised himself as a peasant and made it to the vicinity of the Dorian encampment across the river, where he provoked a group of Dorian soldiers. He was put to death in the quarrel, and the Dorians, realizing Codrus had been slain, decided to retreat in fear of their prophesied defeat. In the aftermath of these events, it was claimed that no one thought himself worthy to succeed Codrus and so the title of king was abolished, and that of archon substituted for it. Aristotle presented an alternative view that Codrus was succeeded as King by his sons Medon, and then Acastus ref Aristotle Constitution of Athens 3 ref . References Reflist start box s reg succession box title King of Athens before Melanthus after the title of king was abolished years end box Category Kings of Athens Category Mythological kings Cate ... more details
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