Dorian Invasion facts for kids

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

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Heracles and Athena. an Attic red-figure vase.
A 6th-century BC cup from Laconia, the very center of the classical Dorians, representing Nike, the goddess of victory, attending upon a Spartan warrior.
A record of Pylos, preserved by baking in the fire that destroyed the palace about 1200 BC, according to the excavator, Carl Blegen. The record must date to about 1200, as the unbaked clay, used mainly for diurnal or other short-term records, would soon have disintegrated.
The northern (to south) Dorian migration in H.G. Wells' The Outline of History (1920).
Athenian proto-geometric pottery.
Geometric pottery, Dorian Argos.