Editing Pelasgians (section)

=== Geographers ===
==== Pausanias ====
In his ''[[Description of Greece]]'', [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadians]] who state that [[Pelasgus]] (along with his followers) was the first inhabitant of their land.<ref>Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8A.html 8.1.4].</ref> Upon becoming king, Pelasgus invented [[huts]], sheep-skin coats, and a diet consisting of [[acorn]]s while governing the land named after him, "Pelasgia".<ref>Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8A.html 8.1.5] and [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8A.html 8.1.6].</ref> When [[Arcas]] became king, Pelasgia was renamed "[[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]" and its inhabitants (the Pelasgians) were renamed "Arcadians".<ref>Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias8A.html 8.4.1].</ref> Pausanias also mentions the Pelasgians as responsible for creating a wooden image of [[Orpheus]] in a sanctuary of [[Demeter]] at Therae,<ref>Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias3B.html 3.20.5].</ref> as well as expelling the [[Minyans]] and [[Lacedaemonians]] from Lemnos.<ref>Pausanias. ''Description of Greece'', [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias7A.html 7.2.2].</ref>

==== Strabo ====
[[Strabo]] dedicates a section of his ''[[Geographica|Geography]]'' to the Pelasgians, relating both his own opinions and those of prior writers. He begins by stating:<ref name=":0" />
{{quote|Almost every one is agreed that the Pelasgi were an ancient race spread throughout the whole of Greece, but especially in the country of the Æolians near to Thessaly.}}

He defines Pelasgian Argos as being {{qi|between the outlets of the [[Peneus]] River and [[Thermopylae]] as far as the mountainous country of Pindus}} and states that it took its name from Pelasgian rule. He includes also the tribes of [[Epirus]] as Pelasgians (based on the opinions of "many"). [[Lesbos]] is named Pelasgian. [[Caere]] was settled by Pelasgians from Thessaly, who called it by its former name, "Agylla". Pelasgians also settled around the mouth of the [[Tiber River]] in Italy at [[Pyrgi]] and a few other settlements under a king, Maleos.<ref>Strabo. ''Geography'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0239%3Abook%3D5%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D8 5.2.8.]</ref>