Pelasgians
group · 3 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages
the Pelasgians · Pelasgian spearsmen · Pelasgian stock · Pelasgian tribes · the Pelasgian race
in the texts
The Histories
Ancient, non-Hellenic people of Greece from whom Herodotus argues the Attic (Athenian) nation partly descends, discussed at length regarding their language and settlements.
if, as I said, one may judge by these, the Pelasgians spoke a language which was not Greek.
If, then, all the Pelasgian stock spoke so, then the Attic nation, being of Pelasgian blood, must have changed its language too at the time when it became part of the Hellenes.
driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian;
Iliad
Trojan-allied people from Larissa led by Hippothoos and Pylaios.
Hippothoos led the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa - Hippothoos, and Pylaios of the race of Ares, two sons of the Pelasgian Lethus, son of Teutamus.
De Pallio
Ancient people named as an early source in the genealogy of the toga.
Ah, how far it has travelled round, from the Pelasgians to the Lydians, from the Lydians to the Romans, that from the shoulders of a loftier people it might embrace the Carthaginians!