Dorian Invasion Theories - What Is the Evidence?

Proponents of this theory point to these classical writers accounts and how they refer to dorians in the context of movements of population. A myth that is often tied up with the classical writers is the return of the heraclide, a term which is used to describe the descendants of the hero heracles. These are supposedly to have returned to the peloponnese where they ruled over the regions of micene, sparta and argos. Another element pointed to to support the dorian theory is the absence of doric dialect in linea b tablets during the misenean times. This was also seen as evidence of an outside people gaining control. Though according to tradition, the d