Antandrus
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Antandrus or Antandros was an ancient Greek city on the north side of the Gulf of Adramyttium in the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as Ἀντανδρία, and included t
O: female head (Artemis Astyrene?) R: lion head within incuse square, ANTAN this silver diobol was struck in Antandrus in the late 5th century BC ref.: CNG E-369, 113; Gitbud & Naumann 24, 170
Pelasgians
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The name Pelasgians was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. In general, "Pelasgia
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…believed to be aboriginal to Anatolia. The 5th century BC historian Herodotus likewise posited non-Greek origins for Antandrus, stating that it was a Pelasgian foundation. Thucydides, writing a few decades after Herodotus in the late 5th century BC, is the first source to suggest Greek origins to Antandrus by…
Plain of Thessaly, to the west of classical Pelasgiotis, but in the original range of the Pelasgians. The Pindus Mountains are visible in the background. The river is the Peneus.
Larisa of Argos.
Athenian Women Surprised by the Pelasgians of Lemnos, Jean Benner, c. 1876