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To: SunkenCiv
On returning to Greece, however, and in the sudden absence of any other threat, Zangger believes the Mycenaeans squabbled and fell into civil war – events hinted at in Homer’s Odyssey. Their civilisation was the last in the area to collapse.

what about the Dorians?

12 posted on 05/13/2016 8:37:39 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: mjp

That is a gray area.


30 posted on 05/13/2016 3:08:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: mjp

They were a minor mode. /rimshot

> Most scholars doubt that the Dorian invasion was the main cause of the collapse of the Mycenean civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorians#The_Dorian_invasion


32 posted on 05/13/2016 3:17:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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