Editing Pelasgians (section)

==== Dionysius of Halicarnassus ====
In the ''Roman Antiquities'', [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] in several pages gives a synoptic interpretation of the Pelasgians based on the sources available to him then, concluding that Pelasgians were Greek:<ref name="Dionysius1.17">Dionysius of Halicarnassus. ''Roman Antiquities'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#17 1.17].</ref>
{{quote|Afterwards some of the Pelasgians who inhabited Thessaly, as it is now called, being obliged to leave their country, settled among the Aborigines and jointly with them made war upon the Sicels. It is possible that the Aborigines received them partly in the hope of gaining their assistance, but I believe it was chiefly on account of their kinship; for the Pelasgians, too, were a Greek nation originally from the Peloponnesus [...]}}

He goes on to add that the nation wandered a great deal.<ref name="Dionysius1.17" /> They were originally natives of "Achaean Argos" descended from Pelasgus, the son of Zeus and Niobe.<ref name="Dionysius1.17" /> They migrated from there to Haemonia (later called Thessaly), where they {{qi|drove out the barbarian inhabitants}} and divided the country into Phthiotis, Achaia, and Pelasgiotis, named after Achaeus, Phthius and Pelasgus, {{qi|the sons of Larissa and Poseidon.}}<ref name="Dionysius1.17" /> Subsequently, {{qi|about the sixth generation they were driven out by the [[Curetes (tribe)|Curetes]] and [[Leleges]], who are now called [[Aetolia]]ns and [[Locris|Locrians]]}}.<ref name="Dionysius1.17" />

From there, the Pelasgians dispersed to [[Crete]], the [[Cyclades]], Histaeotis, [[Boeotia]], [[Phocis]], [[Euboea]], the coast along the [[Hellespont]] and the islands, especially [[Lesbos]], which had been colonized by [[Macar]] son of [[Crinacus]].<ref name="Dionysius1.18">Dionysius of Halicarnassus. ''Roman Antiquities'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#18 1.18].</ref> Most went to Dodona and eventually being driven from there to Italy (then called Saturnia), they landed at [[Spina]] at the mouth of the [[Po River]].<ref name="Dionysius1.18" /> Still others crossed the [[Apennine Mountains]] to [[Umbria]] and being driven from there went to the country of the Aborigines where they consented to a treaty and settled at [[Velia]].<ref name="Dionysius1.19">Dionysius of Halicarnassus. ''Roman Antiquities'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#19 1.19].</ref> They and the Aborigenes took over Umbria but were dispossessed by the [[Tyrrhenians]].<ref name="Dionysius1.19" /> The author then continues to detail the tribulations of the Pelasgians and then goes on to the Tyrrhenians, whom he is careful to distinguish from the Pelasgians.<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus. ''Roman Antiquities'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1B*.html#19 1.19–1.20].</ref>