Herakles/Doric

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@...> wrote:
<<What evidence allows you to disentangle that later situation
and fix Herakles in one group and not others? (Since Herakles is
in Homer, I think there can't be any such evidence.)>>

Quick note:
It's pretty clear that other Greeks associated the "Dorians" with
the Heraklides. As far as the Doric language goes, Mycenaean
is not linguistically considered a mother language to later Greek.
It was just the branch that showed up in writing earliest. Other
branches, like Doric in an earlier form, should have existed at the
same time as Mycenaean, we just don't have it in writing from
that period. So it's not impossible that Herakles "originated"
among Doric speakers, whether or not he is mentioned in
Homer.

Steve