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really on ethnic origins and ethnic differences.
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Here we see,I think without any question, a case of the pre-Dorian Greeks
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who have been defeated and conquered by Dorians
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and these groups have been kept separate
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throughout the centuries,
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and one was top dog and the other was the underdog.
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So, what has happened obviously is that part of the tyrants coming to power
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must have been a reversal of that situation,
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because the leading forces are anti-Dorian, very powerfully anti-Dorian.
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They hate Argos,
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because Argos in the Iliad and the Odyssey,
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the great leader of the peloponnesians,