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==== Homer ==== [[File:Thessaly Plain.jpg|thumb|250px|Plain of [[Thessaly]], to the west of classical [[Pelasgiotis]], but in the original range of the Pelasgians. The [[Pindus Mountains]] are visible in the background. The river is the [[Pineios River (Thessaly)|Peneus]].]] In the ''[[Iliad]]'', there were Pelasgians on both sides of the [[Trojan War]].{{sfn|Gruen|2011|p=241}} In the section known as the ''[[Catalogue of Trojans]]'', they are mentioned between the [[Hellespont]]ine cities and the [[Thracians]] of Southeastern Europe (i.e.,{{nbs}}on the [[Hellespont]]ine border of [[Thrace]]).<ref>Homer. ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D819 2.840β2.843]. The camp at [[Troy]] is mentioned in ''Iliad'', 10.428β10.429.</ref> Homer calls their town or district "Larisa"<ref>Not the same as the [[Larissa]] in [[Thessaly]], Greece. Many towns bearing the same (or similar) name existed. This specific "Larisa" seems to have been located in [[Asia]]. See: {{harvnb|Gruen|2011|p=241}}</ref> and characterises it as fertile, and its inhabitants as celebrated for their spearsmanship. He records their chiefs as [[Hippothous]] and [[Pylaeus]], sons of Lethus, son of [[Teutamides]].<ref>Homer. ''Iliad'' 2.806β12, 17.320β57 (transl. [[Robert Fitzgerald]]). See: {{harvnb|Gruen|2011|p=241}}</ref> The ''Iliad'' also refers to the camp at [[Greece]], specifically at "[[Argos Pelasgikon]]",<ref>Homer. ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D653 2.681β2.684.]</ref>{{sfn|Gruen|2011|p=241}} which is most likely to be the [[plain of Thessaly]],<ref>The location is never explicitly given. Gladstone shows, by process of elimination, that it must be in the north of Thessaly. ({{harvnb|Gladstone|1858|pp=100β105}}.)</ref> and to "Pelasgic [[Zeus]]", living in and ruling over [[Dodona]].<ref>Homer. ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D16%3Acard%3D200 16.233β16.235.]</ref> Additionally, according to the ''Iliad'', Pelasgians were camping out on the shore together with the following tribes: <blockquote>Towards the sea lie the [[Carians]] and the [[Paeonians]], with curved bows, and the [[Leleges]] and [[Caucones]], and the goodly Pelasgi.<ref>Homer. ''Iliad'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.%20Il.%2010.428&lang=original 10.428].</ref></blockquote> In the ''[[Odyssey]]'', they appear among the inhabitants of [[Crete]].{{sfn|Gruen|2011|p=241}} [[Odysseus]], affecting to be Cretan himself, instances Pelasgians among the tribes in the ninety cities of [[Crete]], {{qi|language mixing with language side by side}}.<ref>Homer. ''Odyssey'', 19.175β19.177 ([[Robert Fagles]]'s translation).</ref> Last on his list, Homer distinguishes them from other ethnicities on the island: "Cretans proper", Achaeans, Cydonians (of the city of [[Kydonia|Cydonia]]/modern [[Chania]]), Dorians, and "noble Pelasgians".<ref>Homer. ''Odyssey'', Book 19 (T.E. Lawrence's translation).</ref>
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