Karl M.C3.BCller Laconophilia
karl müller
a new element introduced laconophilia karl otfried müller, linked spartan ideals supposed racial superiority of dorians, ethnic sub-group of greeks spartans belonged. while greek laconophiles plutarch had praised spartans, did not extend admiration dorians whole. plutarch argued founder of constitution, lycurgus, had inherited corrupt dorian institutions. argos, traditional enemy of sparta, dorian state; corinth, rhodes, , syracuse, 3 of commercial states in greece.
in 1824, however, müller wrote die dorier, history of dorian race . has been described thousand-page fantasia , portrays dorians heroic , noble race expanded greece north. used new disciplines of comparative linguistics , source-criticism argue dorians represented distinct ethno-linguistic group original culture isolated later influences. linked origin of dorians mythic myrmidons of trojan war, , leader achilles.
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