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Pelasgus

Summary

In Greek mythology, Pelasgus (Ancient Greek: Πελασγός, Pelasgós means "ancient"[1]) was the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities. In the different parts of the country once occupied by Pelasgians, there existed different traditions as to the origin and connection of Pelasgus. Some ancient Greeks even used to believe that he was the first man.

Inachid Pelasgoí of Argos edit

In Argos, several Inachid kings were called Pelasgus:
  • Pelasgus, brother to Apis both sons of Phoroneus, is said to have founded the city of Argos in Peloponnesus, to have taught the people agriculture, and to have received Demeter, on her wanderings, at Argos, where his tomb was shown in later times.[2]
  • Pelasgus, son of Triopas and Sois, and a brother of Iasus, Agenor, and Xanthus.[3] According to Greek legends, he founded the sanctuary of Demeter in Argos and for this reason she was worshipped at this temple under the name Pelasgian Demeter.[4]
  • Pelasgus, also known as Gelanor, son of Sthenelas or Arestor.[5]

Arcadian Pelasgus edit

Thessalian Pelasgoí edit

  • Pelasgus, an Argive prince as son of Poseidon and Larissa, daughter of the Pelasgus, son of Triopas. Together with his brothers Phthius and Achaeus, they left Achaean Argos with a Pelasgian contingent for Thessaly. They then established a colony on the said country naming it after themselves: Pelasgiotis, Phthiotis and Achaea.[17] Pelasgus was also the founder of the Thessalian Argos.[18][19] He was also said to be the father of Phrastor by the nymph Menippe.[20] Pelasgus is also said to have been the ancestor of the Tyrrhenians through the following lineage: Pelasgus - Phrastor - Amyntor - Teutamides - Nanas. In the latter's reign, the Pelasgians were believed to have left Greece and to have settled in a new land that later came to be named Tyrrhenia.[21]
  • Pelasgus, father of Chlorus and grandfather of Haemon[22] or the father of Haemon and grandfather of Thessalus instead.[23] He may be the same man with the above Pelasgus.

Homeric Pelasgus edit

  • In the Iliad, Homer characterizes Pelasgus as brave, and lists the Pelasgians as allies of the Trojans, fighting against the tribes of Greeks in the Trojan War.[24]
  • Pelasgus, father of Hippothous, one of the Trojan leaders who fought alongside the Dardanians and other allies defending the walls of the city of Troy.[25] In some accounts Hippothous' father was called Lethus, son of the above Teutamides.[26]

Other character edit

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 12 s.v. Hera and her Children
  2. ^ Pausanias, 1.14.2 & 2.22.1; Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 920; Eustathius on Homer, p. 385
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
  4. ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Pelasga
  5. ^ Pausanias, 2.16.1
  6. ^ Hesiod in Apollodorus, 2.1.1; Pausanias, 2.14.3 & 8.1.2
  7. ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
  8. ^ a b Scholion on Euripides, Orestes 1646
  9. ^ a b Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Parrasia
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 481
  11. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 1642
  12. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.11.2 & 1.13.1
  13. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 225
  14. ^ Pausanias, 8.22.2
  15. ^ Fowler, Robert L. (2013). Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1.
  16. ^ Pausanias, 2.14.4
  17. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.17.3
  18. ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 321
  19. ^ Clinton, Fast. Hell. vol. 1. p. 9
  20. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.28.3
  21. ^ Hellanicus' Phoronis as cited in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.28.3 (Hellanicus fr. 4 Fowler, pp. 156–176)
  22. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Haimonia
  23. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1089
  24. ^ Homer (September 2006). The Illiad of Homer (PDF). Translated by Pope, Alexander. pp. 312, 525.
  25. ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.35
  26. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.843
  27. ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.6
  28. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
  29. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.61.1 & 4.72.1; Apollodorus, 1.9.3, 2.1.3 & 3.12.6

References edit

  • Apollodorus. 1921. The Library with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. as two volumes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, UK: William Heinemann Ltd. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online text and Greek text at the Perseus Digital Library  .
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 1937–1950. Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary [in] Loeb Classical Library, as seven volumes. Harvard University Press. Online text at Bill Thayer's website  .
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 1885. Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, vols I-IV. Karl Jacoby. [in] Aedibus. Leipzig: B.G. Teubneri. Greek text at the Perseus Digital Library  .
  • Fowler, Robert L. 2013. Early Greek Mythography, vol 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from the Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online text at the Topos Text Project  .
  • Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Pseudo-Clement. 1867. Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library, volume 8, translated by Rev. Thomas Smith. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. Online text at theio.com .  
  • Stephanus of Byzantium. 1849. Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870). A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling, available at Online text at the Topos Text Project  .

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "_". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


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