Get Real! wrote:On the contrary Oracle,
it’s the ancient Greeks that were extinct when the Dorians overrun them! That’s why modern “Greeks” are of Slavic ancestry and not ancient Greek!It’s by no accident that the modern “Greek” historians of the early 19th century invented a 300 year “Dark Period” immediately after the Dorian invasion/occupation during which Greek culture dwindled! What they should’ve said had they been honest was that the Mycenaeans were well and truly ROOTED! End of line.
However, what these phonies did in the early 19th century was to
conveniently and miraculously place a bunch of Mycenaeans on Cyprus so they would establish “continuity” for their sake!
It’s one of the world’s most deceiving acts of historical manipulation that formed the nucleus of modern Greece's “Megali Idea”…
GR what are you talking about? The Dorians ARE ancient Greeks. The Dorians were one of the three main tribes that made up ancient Greece. They spoke Greek. They were not Slavs!
"A Dark Age Descends upon Greece
Around 1200 BCE,
Dorian Greeks -- who had been living just north of Greece and spoke a dialect different from the Mycenae Greeks -- began the first of their invasions into the Greek peninsula. They bypassed some areas but overran much of the Mycenae civilization that had spread into the central part of the Greek mainland.
They looted and destroyed palaces and sent people fleeing, some eastward to Asia Minor, some southeast to nearby islands and to Cyprus.
In the mid-1100s, after decades of respite, came more Dorian invasions. In Ithaca, an island off the western coast of Greece, Mycenae Greeks made common cause with people native to the area, and there the Mycenae were able to maintain a semblance of their way of life. So too were some longtime inhabitants still on mainland Greece.
The city of Athens and cities in Euboea survived, but the Dorians pushed countless Greeks to a new exodus. Legend tells of a well-organized expedition from Athens to the island of Lesbos off the coast of Asia Minor.
Other migrants from Greece fled to Asia Minor and mixed with local peoples, and western Asia Minor became a mixture of peoples speaking a variety of Greek dialects.
Mycenae Greeks fled to Crete, and soon the Dorians overran that island,
as people were fleeing from there to Cyprus. The Dorians moved eastward to the southwest shores of Asia Minor, island hopping by way of Melos, Thera and Rhodes. On the coast of Asia Minor they destroyed Miletus and other cities, and some Mycenae Greeks migrated from the coast of Asia Minor farther inland.
The Dorian invasions destroyed the prosperity and cohesion of Greece. There was a sharp drop in agricultural production and in population. Greek cities became villages, and writing declined and was lost. Trade between Greece and elsewhere disappeared as the
Dorian Greeks had no desire for contact with foreign peoples, believing that beyond them lived only strange people and monsters. "
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch07.htm
Here is more on the Dorians under "Ancient Greek Civilisations":
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/ ... rians.html
"In the southwest part of the island of Crete today lives
a
Dorian Greek tribe. They are very tall, fair haired and have blue eyes."
http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-cret ... fakia.html
"Dorian people - any member of a major division of the
ancient Greek people, distinguished by a well-marked dialect."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/169465/Dorian
We're all paying for the beliefs of the likes of you...
