Δωριέων (Dorieon)

Δωριέων is an Ancient Greek form of Δωριεύς, meaning “Dorian”.

It can also be a form of Δώριος, “Dorian — a man of the Dorian Greeks”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Heroditi malignate 14: … ἀλλʼ ἀναγαγὼν εἰς Περσέα τὸ Ἡρακλέους γένος Περσέα μὲν Ἀσσύριον γεγονέναι λέγει κατὰ τὸν Περσῶν λόγον · οἱ δὲ Δωριέων φησὶν ἡγεμόνες φαίνοιντʼ ἂν Αἰγύπτιοι ἰθαγενέες ἐόντες, καταλέγοντι τοὺς ἄνω ἀπὸ Δανάης τῆς Ἀκρισίου πατέρας. …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.