Dorian invasion

The Dorian invasion is a theoretical migration of Dorian Greeks into Ancient Greece, which is believed to have contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse.

Dorian Invasion Media

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  Karl Otfried Müller, painted by Wilhelm Ternite in 1838. Müller popularised the ancient myth of the Dorian invasion in modern archaeology, and within German nationalism and pseudoscientific race theory.

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  Distribution of the major dialects of Ancient Greek within the Aegean region and Cyprus, c. 500 – c. 323 BCE

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  Drawing by Eduard Gerhard of a late sixth-century BCE Greek amphora, showing Heracles (left) with Athena. Behind Heracles is a column of the Doric order; behind Athena is one of the Ionic order, showing the association between Heracles and Dorian identity.

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  Map from H. G. Wells's The Outline of History (1920), showing the Dorian invasion as a migration from northern Greece

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  Linear B tablet from Pylos, c. 1180 BCE. The discovery that these tablets were written in Greek led to doubts over the Dorian invasion hypothesis.

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  Cist grave in the Mycenaean cemetery at Dendra in the Argolid. Previously associated with the Dorian invasion, such graves are known to have been used throughout the Mycenaean period.