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The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq.

Karl Otfried Müller

Date:: MDCCCXXX. [1830]

Credit: The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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BOOK I. HISTORY OF THE DORIC RACE, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE END OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. CHAT. I. The Dorians in Thessaly. 1. “ From early times the Dorians and lonians “ were the chief races of the Grecian nation; the ‘‘ latter of Pelasgic, the former of Hellenic origin; “ the latter an aboriginal, the former a people much “ addicted to wandering. For, when under the do- “ minion of Deucalion, they dwelt in Phthiotis ; and “ in the time of Dorus, the son of Hellen, they in- “ habited the country at the foot of Ossa and Olym- “ pus, which was called Hestiaeotis. Afterwards “ however, being driven from Hestiaeotis by the “ Cadmeans, they dwelt under mount Pindus, and “ were called the Macednian nation. From thence “ they again migrated to Dryopis; and having pass- “ ed from Dryopis into the Peloponnese, they were “ called the Doric race^.” No one can consider this connected account as flowing immediately from ancient tradition; and it “ Herod. I. 56; which pas- sage has been treated of by Salmasius, de Lingua Hellenica, p. 276, and in the Mdmoires de VAcaddmie des Inscripiions, tom. XXV. p. II—28. Compare VIII. 43. ’Eoyre? AcopiKov re koI MaKedpov fdvos 'Epivtov re Kal nipSov Kal TT]S ApvoTTidos va-Tara opprjdepTfS. c 3

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