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Character Name

Doriana

Meaning — An Italian feminine elaboration of Dorian, from the Greek Dorios meaning "of the Dorians" — the ancient Greek people who settled the Peloponnese and Crete. The Dorians were associated with a spare, austere aesthetic in music and architecture that gave rise to the Doric architectural order. The name gained literary resonance through Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel.·Ancient Greek origin·Female·doh-ree-AH-nah

Doriana Doriana carries the Wildean shadow of Dorian Gray — a name that since 1890 has been inseparable from beauty that conceals corruption, the gorgeous surface that disguises what festers beneath. In the original Greek the Dorians were associated with a severe, unadorned excellence that contrasted sharply with the ornate Ionic. The feminine Italian form softens the name while retaining its literary charge, creating a character who is beautiful, possibly dangerous, and almost certainly not what she appears.

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Historical FictionLiterary FictionFantasyRomanceMythology

Famous characters named Doriana

Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

The beautiful young man whose portrait ages and corrupts in his place while he remains forever young, Wilde's fable about the price of aesthetic narcissism and moral decay.


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