Dorian : one of ancient races of Greece, originally settled in the Peloponnesus (q.v.), expanded to Crete & spread colonies to Italy, Sicily, & Asia Minor. Their full inrush came after the fall of Troy.
... honeycombs of pleasure, Cheeks enrosed, Love's natal soil, Breasts, the ardent conqueror's spoil, Spring rejects; a lovelier child His brittle fancies has beguiled. O her name that to repeat Than the Dorian muse more sweet Could the white hand more relume Writing and refresh the bloom Of lips that used such syllables then, Dies unloved by later men. Page 24 Are we more than summer flowers ...
... exhausted, and the people waited patiently for a saner dynasty. About the year 1104 BC, Dorians invaded Greece. Hence, there came about the contact of five cultures — Cretan, Mycenaean, Achaean, Dorian, oriental — and this brought new youth to a civilization that would have died. The mixture of races contributed to produce the variety, flexibility, and subtley of Greek thought and life. Hellas was ...
... olives, Noons of Mediterranean suns and the kiss of the southwind Mingled their brilliant force with the plastic warmth of the Hamite. There they shall rule and their children long till Fate and the Dorian Break down Hellene doors and trample stern through the passes. Mixed in a glittering rout on the Ocean beaches one sees them, Perfect and beautiful figures and fronts, not as now are we mortals... earth like hawks released through the air; a shouting Limitless rolled behind, for nations followed each war-cry. Lords renowned of the northern hills and the plains and the coast-lands, Many a Dorian, many a Phthian, many a Hellene, Names now lost to the ear though then reputed immortal! Night has swallowed them, Zeus has devoured the light of his children; Drawn are they back to his bosom vast ...
... who has rejected (as the preceding lines say) the beauties of girlhood that had been wooed in the past in the same garden. The next six lines, O her name that to repeat Than the Dorian muse more sweet, Could the white hand more relume Writing and refresh the bloom Of lips that used such syllables then, Dies unloved by later men, make a generality of the... the faded name and quicken the life-bloom on the withered lips that at one time uttered it, then we should know how sweet it were to repeat that name, sweeter than the simple and solemn music in the Dorian mode prevalent in the Greek countryside. But such a name disappears and later men do not cherish it." Page 330 The first fourteen lines of stanza 8, With thy kisses chase this ...
... the Amazon queen Penthesilea Glossary of proper names and Greek and Latin terms & Achaians or Achaeans: the name by which the first Indo-European occupants of Greece, prior to the Dorian invasion, were collectively known; perhaps originally a specific tribe. It is the common Homeric term for the Greeks. Achilles: son of Peleus (king of Phithia and a grandson of Zeus) and... directed the Trojan War from there. Ilion: or Ilium, a name of Troy as the city of Ilus. lonians: A section of the ancient Greek people; they inhabited the south of Greece before the Dorian invasion sent many of them across the Aegean to the central part of Asia minor, which became known as "Ionia". Laocoon: Trojan prince, son of Priam and priest of Apollo. He prophesies that ...
... transmigrations, nor would I wrong the author of the Hippias by ignoring his conclusions. Or why go to dead men for an example? The mould has not fallen on the musical lips of the Irish Plato nor is Dorian Gray forgotten on the hundred tongues of Rumour. Wilson —If our sense of right is really so prone to error, we should not rely upon it. Keshav —Then, to quote Mṛṣ Mountstuart, you have just ...
... immigrant streams from Airiyānam vaējo. There is nothing inherently improbable about two streams. Do we not hear of an entry into Greece by Indo-Europeans in about 2000 B.C. and then of a second (Dorian) intrusion about 800 years after? In Parpola's own theory we have two entries into India by the Aryans divided by three or four centuries. We may picture our two immigrant streams to have found ...
... suited him or when he did not know better, was of the same opinion. “By the Greeks he meant the Dorians. Naturally his view was affected by the theory, fostered by the scientists of his period, that the Dorian tribe which migrated into Greece from the north had been of Germanic origin and that, therefore, its culture had not belonged to the Mediterranean world.” 475 When one asks who were our forefathers ...
... ian philosophy? One of my literary difficulties are a number of lines in an early poem of Sri Aurobindo's. They occur in "Night by the Sea": O her name that to repeat Than the Dorian muse more sweet Could the white hand more relume Writing and refresh the bloom Of lips that used such syllables then, Dies unloved by later men. (Collected Poems, p. 17) There ...
... helped not, night over the world cannot darken; Night forbidden how shall a greater dawn be effected? The fall of Troy certainly marks the end of a long age, known as the Bronze Age. The Dorian invasion which soon followed the Greek victory brought with it a long period of darkness and it will be many centuries before the Greeks, rising out of their ashes like the legendary Phoenix,4 developed ...
... that particular Troy are trifling compared to Homer's description of Priam’s great city. The city did burn in 1184 BC which is the accepted date of its destruction. Soon after, due to the Dorian² conquest, Greece fell into a long dark age out of which, many centuries later, emerged one of the most creative nations of the Ancient world. Why are the poems of Homer so universal in significance ...
... honours were paid him — which might include the grant of dinner in the town-hall at the public expense for the rest of his life (something to off-set the Crown of Wild Olive), and, especially among the Dorians, the custom grew of commissioning a poet-composer to write a solemn choral hymn in his honour, for performance at a banquet or at some religious festival. So it came about that of the two most majestic ...
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