Pélasges
“ Pélasges ” (in Greek old Πελασγοί / Pelasgoí ) is the name given by the old Greek to the first inhabitants of the Greece, before the great Achaean invasions , wind and Ionian.
In Iliade , Homère speaks about it like people originating in Thessalie: “tribes of Pélasges to the good lances, Pélasges inhabitants of copious Larisse” ( It. , II, 840-841). Other authors rather make the originating ones in Crete or Étrurie. Hérodote declares that the first name of Greece was Pélasgia ( Πελασγία ) and gives a pelasgic origin to the Arcadie NS, the Athéniens or to the Argiens. Argos is besides called “Pélasgique” by Homère ( ibid , II, 681), and Dodone, in Épire, venerates Zeus Pélasgique. Certain constructions, like the cyclopean walls of Athens, are also qualified the pélasgiques ones.
The term is still used to indicate civilizations existing in Greece before the great invasions. However, it is certain that there did not exist single people, but an amalgam resulting from successive waves of migrants of very diverse origins, among which the Daces in Romania appear.
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