Notes
1 The archaeological and textual evidence is sufficient to have generated a strong consensus among modern experts that the Dorians created the myth of the “Return of Heracleidae” to politically legitimize their action of land acquisition. See Malkin (2003), pp. 15–45; and Nilsson (1972), pp. 68–73.
2 Ashworth (2003), pp. 117–30; Braddick (1996), pp. 100–01; and O’Brien (1988), p. 28.