Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dorians sun bar wasu rubuce-rubuce da aka zana a cikin dutse, a kusa da haikalin Apollo, suna tabbatar da dangantakar pederastic tsakanin marubutan da masoyan su (eromenoi). Wadannan rubuce-rubucen, waɗanda aka samo ta hanyar, wasu masana ilimin kimiyyar kayan tarihi sun yi tunanin cewa al'ada ce, yanayi ne na bikin, saboda girman su, ingantaccen gini da kuma <unk> a wasu lokuta <unk> aiwatarwa ta hannun masu sana'a banda marubutan. A cewar Herodotus, bayan fari na shekara bakwai, Thera ta aika da mazauna da suka kafa birane da yawa a arewacin Afirka, har da Cyrene. A karni na 5 BC, Dorian Thera bai shiga kungiyar Delian tare da Athens ba; kuma a lokacin yakin Peloponnesian, Thera ya goyi bayan Dorian Sparta, a kan Athens. Mutanen Athens sun kama tsibirin a lokacin yakin, amma sun sake rasa shi bayan yakin Aegospotami
Ka yi haƙuri. A lokacin Hellenistic, tsibirin ya kasance babban sansanin sojan ruwa na Ptolemaic Misira.