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In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Dorus is the name of several individuals:

Dorus was a son of Hellen
Hellen

Hellen , Greek Katharevousa: was the mythological patriarch of the Greeks, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus....
and founder of the Dorian nation. Each of Hellen
Hellen

Hellen , Greek Katharevousa: was the mythological patriarch of the Greeks, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus....
's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece - Aeolus
Aeolus

Aeolus , Latinized as ?olus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which....
the Aeolians
Aeolians

The Aeolians were one of the three ancient Ancient Greece tribes. The name comes from the fact that they were considered to be descended from Aeolus ....
, Dorus the Dorians and Xuthus
Xuthus

In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaeans and Ionians nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ionas and Achaeus, son of Xuthus and a daughter named Diomede....
the Achaeans
Achaeans

The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
(from Xuthus's son Achaeus
Achaeus, son of Xuthus

Achaeus was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and conse?quently a brother of Ionas and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus....
) and the Ionians
Ionians

The Ionians were one of the three populations into which the ancient Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided."Ionian" with reference to populations had two senses in Classical Greece....
(from Xuthus's probably illegitimate son Ionas ) together with his sister's Pandora
Pandora

[Image:Pandora.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"The Creation of "[A]NESIDORA" on a white-ground kylix by the Tarquinia Painter, ca 460 BC In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman....
's sons with Zeus and according to Hesiod
Hesiod

Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
's (probably) "Eoiae" or "Catalogue of Women
Catalogue of Women

The Catalogue of Women is an Ancient Greek literature poem. Ancient writers sometimes attributed it to Hesiod, although the poem contains a few references to events and things after Hesiod's time that could suggest that they were later added or that the epic is of a completely different author....
", Graecus
Graecus

Graecus or Gr?cus was, according to Hesiod's "Eoiae" or Catalogue of Women on the origin of the Greeks, the son of Pandora II and Zeus....
the Graecians, Makedon
Ancient Macedonians

The Macedonians were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, north of Mount Olympus in Greece....
the Makedones
Ancient Macedonians

The Macedonians were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, north of Mount Olympus in Greece....
and Magnetas
Magnetes

The Magnetes were an ancient Greece tribe living in Thessaly Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War. They later also contributed to the Greek colonies....
(or Magnis) the Magnetes
Magnetes

The Magnetes were an ancient Greece tribe living in Thessaly Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War. They later also contributed to the Greek colonies....
.

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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Dorus is the name of several individuals:
1. Dorus was a son of Hellen
  Hellen
  
  Hellen , Greek Katharevousa: was the mythological patriarch of the Greeks, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus....
  and founder of the Dorian nation. Each of Hellen
  Hellen
  
  Hellen , Greek Katharevousa: was the mythological patriarch of the Greeks, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus....
  's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece - Aeolus
  Aeolus
  
  Aeolus , Latinized as ?olus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which....
  the Aeolians
  Aeolians
  
  The Aeolians were one of the three ancient Ancient Greece tribes. The name comes from the fact that they were considered to be descended from Aeolus ....
  , Dorus the Dorians and Xuthus
  Xuthus
  
  In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaeans and Ionians nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ionas and Achaeus, son of Xuthus and a daughter named Diomede....
  the Achaeans
  Achaeans
  
  The Achaeans is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans and Argives ....
  (from Xuthus's son Achaeus
  Achaeus, son of Xuthus
  
  Achaeus was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and conse?quently a brother of Ionas and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus....
  ) and the Ionians
  Ionians
  
  The Ionians were one of the three populations into which the ancient Greeks considered the population of Hellenes to have been divided."Ionian" with reference to populations had two senses in Classical Greece....
  (from Xuthus's probably illegitimate son Ionas ) together with his sister's Pandora
  Pandora
  
  [Image:Pandora.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"The Creation of "[A]NESIDORA" on a white-ground kylix by the Tarquinia Painter, ca 460 BC In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman....
  's sons with Zeus and according to Hesiod
  Hesiod
  
  Hesiod was a Greek language oral poet, his date is uncertain but leading scholars agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the Eighth-century BCE....
  's (probably) "Eoiae" or "Catalogue of Women
  Catalogue of Women
  
  The Catalogue of Women is an Ancient Greek literature poem. Ancient writers sometimes attributed it to Hesiod, although the poem contains a few references to events and things after Hesiod's time that could suggest that they were later added or that the epic is of a completely different author....
  ", Graecus
  Graecus
  
  Graecus or Gr?cus was, according to Hesiod's "Eoiae" or Catalogue of Women on the origin of the Greeks, the son of Pandora II and Zeus....
  the Graecians, Makedon
  Ancient Macedonians
  
  The Macedonians were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, north of Mount Olympus in Greece....
  the Makedones
  Ancient Macedonians
  
  The Macedonians were an ancient tribe which inhabited the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Vardar, north of Mount Olympus in Greece....
  and Magnetas
  Magnetes
  
  The Magnetes were an ancient Greece tribe living in Thessaly Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War. They later also contributed to the Greek colonies....
  (or Magnis) the Magnetes
  Magnetes
  
  The Magnetes were an ancient Greece tribe living in Thessaly Magnesia who took part in the Trojan War. They later also contributed to the Greek colonies....
  . Dorus was killed by Apis when he tried to invade the Peloponnese.
2. Dorus was the son of Apollo
  Apollo
  
  In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
  and Phthia
  Phthia
  
  Founded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game "The Battle of Olympus," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes....
  , and the father of Xanthippe.
3. Dorus was the son of Xuthus
  Xuthus
  
  In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaeans and Ionians nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ionas and Achaeus, son of Xuthus and a daughter named Diomede....
  and Creusa
  Creusa
  
  In Greek mythology, four people had the name Creusa ; the name means simply "princess"....
  .
It is also the stage name of Dutch comedian Tom Manders.

A doru is allegedly a type of spear.

Dorus is Scottish gaelic for "Door"