Who were the Pelasgians? (Pre-Historic People of Greece)

Pelasgians, or Pelasgoi, were extensively mentioned by the ancient Greeks in various contexts and capacities. However, the background and origins of these peoples, as well as how their relation to the Greeks themselves, remains enigmatic, as even the ancient writers offered different and sometimes contradictory theories and definitions. In this video, we talk about the Pelasgians.

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[Chrxstos]

If you include archeogenetics in the discussion it's pretty obvious that Pelasgians was a term to describe a part or all of the Neolithic population of Greece before the mixtures with the Greek speaking protogreek tribes

[thegreekchad]

I'm from lemnos and here we all are aware of our pelasgian heritage

[hrvatskiapoksiomen]

Well as a historian I have to put up Homer's testimony taking Pelasgians as Greeks for granted.

Homer in his Iliad written in 8th century BC:

Rhapsody 2, Lines 680-685

Line 681: Pelasgian Argos
Line 683: Hellas
Line 684: Hellenes

[680] And with them there came thirty ships.
Those again who held (681) Pelasgian Argos, Alos, Alope, and Trachis; and those of Phthia and *_Hellas_*  (683) the land of fair women, who were called Myrmidons, *_Hellenes_*, (684) and Achaeans; [685] these had fifty ships, over which Achilles was in command.

Argos was the most ancient Greek city called by Homer as :
*_P e l a s g i a n A r g o s_*

So Homer tells us for granted that Pelasgians are Greeks

[georgelalos]

Ancient Greek mythology explains that Achaeans, Minoans, Dorians, Ionians, Aeolians were all Pelasgians as the later were the progenitors of the Greeks.

[douglaskingsman]

You nailed it at the end. The Pelasgians were what the later Greeks called the pre-Greek indigenous inhabitants who were there when the IEs began to arrive and began to become Greeks.

[antoniotorcoli]

Excellent video. It is quite interesting that the greek sources frequently quote the Pelasgians together with the Thyrrenians. For instance the pre Greeks inhabitants of Lemnos were Pelasgians according to some sources, Thyrrenisns according to others.

[wankawanka]

albanian cahllenge :try not to steal ancient people(impossible)🤣🤣🤣

[fvxqrzp]

Even today the Aegean and Ionian are called "pelagos", meaning "sunken land".
The Pelasgoi were "The People from the Sunken Land"

[Tiberon]

This was very informative and well done, if I might suggest a future video, maybe one on the Tocharians?

[davidchurch]

I wonder how many of the named groups are not 'proper noun' names, but either descriptions of where they lived, or what they did, or attributions to temporal leaders or even assumed traditional/historical leaders, or battle-generals. In the same way as the people who were called Argonauts because they sailed in a ship named Argo, whether or not the sailors were from Argo City; or where pelasgians only means those who live near the seas, in which ever region they are, although some would be Mycenean pelasgians, and some would be cretan pelasgians, perhaps?

[lindenstromberg]

Any relation to the Philistines? The Philistines are said to have an Aegean origin.

[Jobe-]

Nice. I’ve currently been looking up info on the Pelasgians. I wanted to know more about Greece before the Mycenaean civilization.

[thesaints--andrew.]

Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Interesting video.

[badmicrophoneguy]

Seriously, this channel is severely underrated. The pelasgians poped up and there it is a hidden treasure of Greek prehistory and even more than that. You look like an archeologist though mate with that kind of in depth knowledge in these prehistoric fact. Cheers. Well done, looking forward for more.

[TakisTravel]

Wonderful video. 👍
Greetings from Athens.🔆

[nixter]

Sadly his father, Priam, mourned for him, not knowing that young Aesacus had assumed wings on his shoulders, and was yet alive. Then also Hector with his brothers made complete but unavailing sacrifice, upon a tomb which bore his carved name. Paris was absent. But soon afterwards, he brought into that land a ravished wife, Helen, the cause of a disastrous war, together with a thousand ships, and all the great Pelasgian nation...The Roman poet Ovid describes the Greeks of the Trojan War as Pelasgians in his Metamorphoses.... Pelasgians were the Greeks themselves.

[tnmrcricket]

Good morning to everyone. You who are now reading my comment, isn't it strange that while this channel talks about Greece, it doesn't have subtitles in Greek? The same phenomenon in the Louvre museum!! More than half of the exhibits are from Greece (stolen of course) and the entrance to the museum has the phrase "welcome" in all languages ​​except Greek. I as a Greek feel sorry for their low level of emotional intelligence which results in this uncivilized behavior.

[johnbooth]

Robert GRAVES Classical Myths books one and Two. Graves mentions the Pelasgians as Dolichocephaly type skulls . That is long faces and long narrow skulls. you will see such faces on the streets of Greece . Petros a name found in the Illiad was mocked by the Greeks for his long head.

[WaldemarMontalvo-mqkw]

While in the navy we stopped in Perth, merchant sailors invited us to their table, had few beers with the group me and another shipmate. The merchant sailors some were Greeks, couple Montenegrin and one Albanian very congenial fellows, until some drunk local interrupted the conversation. The Albanian man, which earlier had described himself as an Albanian nationalist, did not take lightly the affront, sprung up with knife in hand, swiftly glancing at the other man missing his stomach by few millimeters and thanks to the Greek sailor that anticipated his move and stopped his lunging on time. This all transpired within seconds before I could even swallow the drink I had just drank out of my beer. After all the Albanian man mentioned his intention had been to “open you up like a pig”. The Greek sailor after all had invited us to their table insisting I was a Greek too, which I kindly accepted as a privilege. Why not? He bought the round. A sailor shall never refuse free beer!

[joanapira]

In the region near northwest of Greece there is a village wich has many Pellazgian graves but access is denied cause people protect them.