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[3] For in the days of king Deucalion1 it inhabited the land of Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into the Peloponnese, where it took the name of Dorian.2

1 Deucalion and Pyrrha were the survivors of the Deluge as known to Greek legend.

2 The localities mentioned in the story of the migration into the Peloponnese are all in northern Greece.

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