Pelasgians

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ancient people mythological people pre-Hellenic people

The Pelasgians are a mysterious pre-Hellenic people of ancient Greek tradition, often portrayed in myth and legend as the indigenous inhabitants of Greece before the arrival of the classical Greek tribes.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Maeonians	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient people ⓘ mythological people ⓘ pre-Hellenic people ⓘ
archaeologicalStatus	no securely identified Pelasgian material culture ⓘ
associatedWithConcept	autochthony in Greek political ideology ⓘ
associatedWithRegion	Aegean islands NERFINISHED ⓘ Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Attica NERFINISHED ⓘ Crete NERFINISHED ⓘ Epirus NERFINISHED ⓘ Peloponnese NERFINISHED ⓘ Thessaly NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithSite	Dodona NERFINISHED ⓘ Larissa NERFINISHED ⓘ Lemnos NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalPerception	often idealized as primordial Greeks in later literature ⓘ
culturalRole	ancestral population in Greek myth-history ⓘ
describedAs	indigenous inhabitants of Greece in Greek tradition ⓘ mysterious people in ancient Greek sources ⓘ
ethnicStatus	identity uncertain ⓘ possibly non-Greek speaking ⓘ
ethnonymLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
languageStatus	language debated by scholars ⓘ language unknown ⓘ
linkedTo	early walls and fortifications in Greek tradition ⓘ foundations of some ancient Greek sanctuaries ⓘ
mentionedIn	Herodotus Histories NERFINISHED ⓘ Homeric epics NERFINISHED ⓘ Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ writings of Pausanias ⓘ writings of Strabo NERFINISHED ⓘ writings of Thucydides NERFINISHED ⓘ
modernScholarshipView	composite or umbrella term for various pre-Greek groups ⓘ largely legendary or semi-legendary people ⓘ
nameEtymologyStatus	uncertain ⓘ
possibleIdentification	Tyrrhenians (in some ancient sources) NERFINISHED ⓘ pre-Greek Aegean populations ⓘ
relatedTopic	ethnogenesis of the ancient Greeks ⓘ pre-Greek substrate in the Aegean ⓘ
religiousAssociation	early worship at Dodona ⓘ
roleInTradition	autochthonous inhabitants of Greece ⓘ predecessors of Hellenes ⓘ
sourceType	literary tradition ⓘ mythological tradition ⓘ
timePeriod	Bronze Age NERFINISHED ⓘ pre-classical Greece ⓘ
viewedByAncientGreeksAs	earlier inhabitants of Greek lands ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arcadians → mythicalAncestry → Pelasgians ⓘ

Pelasgikon Oros → associatedWith → Pelasgians ⓘ

Pelasgikon Oros → ethnicAssociation → Pelasgians ⓘ

Pelasgiotis → hasNameOrigin → Pelasgians ⓘ

Pelasgiotis → ethnicGroupsInAntiquity → Pelasgians ⓘ

Kingdom of Maeonia → ethnonymAssociated → Pelasgians ⓘ

this entity surface form: Maeonians