Dorio, or Dorion is a municipality and a village in the prefecture of Messinia, Greece. The population of the municipality is 4,069, and of the village alone 1,416 (2001 census). Dorio is 170 m above sea level. The small settlement of Ano Dorio is nearby. Messinia (Greek: Μεσσηνία, also spelled Messenia; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a prefecture in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. ... Ano Dorio, or Ano Dorion, is a settlement in the prefecture of Messinia, Greece. ...

Dorio has been mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and by Strabo and Pausanias. Homer recounts a myth that Dorio was the location of a music competition between Thamyris and the Muses. Homer (Greek Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and aoidos (singer) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... The Iliad (Ancient Greek , Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. ... The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ... Pausanias is the name of several ancient people: Pausanias was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC. Pausanias of Sparta was King of Sparta from 409 BC-395 BC. Pausanias was the servant/lover who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC Pausanias, Greek traveller and geographer of... In Greek mythology, Thamyris, son of Philammon, was a Thracian bard who was so vain and proud, that he boasted he could outsing the Muses themselves, according to a passage in Homer (Iliad, book ii, 594-600) that is taken up in Euripides Rhesus. ... For other uses see Muse (disambiguation). ...

Famous people

The Tsiabouris family

References

• Athens2004.com - Dorio

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