Doric dialect

Since in historical Greek times, let us say the fifth The people who inhabited the Peloponnesus were mainly speakers of the Greek dialect called dark.

It was thought that Heracles' sons and Heracles being Peloponnesians no doubt spoke Doric too, and so this was referred to by scholars in the nineteenth century, not by the ancient Greeks, as a Dorian invasion.

In other words, another kind of Greek.

The Greeks who lived in the area before the fall of the Mycenaean world, what were they called? Well, Homer gives us several names for them, three stick out for me.

where the people are Achaians.

So, the theory might be, well they were driven away from their old homes in the southern Peloponnesus and went up to the northern Peloponnesus.

Then there are the people in the mountains of Arcadia who also don't speak the Doric language and maybe they were driven up there to escape.

So, those are the things that help people decide that the Dorians may really have been the sons of Heracles who actually invaded.