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
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
Leleges
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The Leleges were an aboriginal people of the Aegean region, before the Greeks arrived. They were distinct from another pre-Hellenic people of the region, the Pelasgians. The exact areas to which they
Pelasgians
…Pelasgians were camping out on the shore together with the following tribes: Towards the sea lie the Carians and the Paeonians, with curved bows, and the Leleges and Caucones, and the goodly Pelasgi. In the Odyssey, they appear among the inhabitants of Crete. Odysseus, affecting to be Cretan himself, instances…
The Lady of Ephesus, 1st century AD, Ephesus Archaeological Museum
Pygmalion
Apollo and Daphne
Io changed into a cow, Mercury cuts of Argus's head