Dorians

one of the great Hellenic races who took their name from the mythical Dorus, the son of Hellen, who settled in Doris; but Hero dot us says that in the time of King Deucalion they inhabited the district Phthiotis; and in the time of Dorus, the son of Hellen, the country called Histizotis, at the foot of O a and Olympus. But the statement of Apollo dor us is more probable, according to which they would appear to have occupied the whole country along the N. shore of the Corinthian Gulf. Indeed, Doris proper was far too small and insignificant a district to furnish a sufficient number of men for a victorious invasion of the Peloponnesus. In this remarkable achievement they were conjoined with the Heracleide.