Son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis and brother of Xuthus and Aeolus; he received the country over against the Peloponnese and called the settlers Dorians after himself.1
Apollodorus maps the Greek peoples from a single house. Hellen had Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus by the nymph Orseis; he named the former Greeks Hellenes after himself and divided the country among his sons. Dorus took the region facing the Peloponnese and gave his own name to the Dorians — one third of the tripartite division that sets Aeolus in Thessaly and Xuthus in the Peloponnese.2
Homer knows the Dorians as a people — Tydeus' shield shows the device of a lion and a boar, the work of a craftsman from the Carians whom the Dorians drove out of the island — but names no eponymous Dorus in the epics. The man enters the record only with the genealogists who parcel Hellas after the flood.3
Hyginus later splices the Dorian founder into other lines: among the sons of Neptune he counts Boeotus and Hellen by Antiopa, daughter of Aeolus — a competing stemma that must not be merged with the Deucalionid Hellen who fathered Dorus through Orseis.4⚖
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