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==== Sophocles and Euripides ==== Sophocles and Euripides affirm the Greek origins of the Pelasgians while highlighting their relationship to the [[Danaids]], a relationship introduced and explored in depth in [[Aeschylus]]'s ''[[The Suppliants (Aeschylus)|Suppliants]]''.{{sfn|Lambright|2022|pp=80-81}} [[Sophocles]] presents Inachus, in a fragment of a missing play entitled ''Inachus'',{{Sfn|Sophocles|Dindorf|1849|loc=Fragment 256 (p. 352)}} as the elder in the lands of Argos, the [[Hera]]n hills and among the Tyrsenoi Pelasgoi, an unusual hyphenated noun construction, "Tyrsenians-Pelasgians". Interpretation is open, even though translators typically make a decision, but Tyrsenians may well be the ethnonym ''[[Tyrrhenoi]]''. [[Euripides]] uses the term for the inhabitants of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] in his ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]''<ref>Euripides. ''Orestes'', Lines 857 and 933.</ref> and ''[[The Phoenician Women (play)|The Phoenician Women]]''.<ref>Euripides. ''The Phoenician Women'', Line 107.</ref> In a lost play entitled ''Archelaus'', he says that [[Danaus]], on coming to reside in the city of [[Inachus]] (Argos), formulated a law whereby the Pelasgians were now to be called [[Danaans]].<ref name=":0" />
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