Pelasgiotis
Pelasgiotis(Ancient Greek:Πελασγιῶτις,romanized:Pelasgiōtis) was an elongated district ofancient Thessaly,extending from theVale of Tempein the north to the city ofPheraein the south. The Pelasgiotis included the following localities:Argos Pelasgikon,Argyra,Armenium,Atrax,Crannon,Cynoscephalae,Elateia,Gyrton,Mopsion,Larissa,Kondaia,Onchestosriver and town,Phayttos,Pherae,Scotussa,andSykourion.Thedemonymof the district's inhabitants is Pelasgiotae or Pelasgiotes (Πελασγιῶται,Pelasgiōtai).
Along withAchaea Phthiotis,ThessaliotisandHistiaeotis,the Pelasgiotis comprised theThessalian tetrarchy,governed by atagus,when occasion required.
The territory is mentioned byStrabo[1]but not byHerodotus,who seems to include it in the district of Thessaliotis.[2]
In epigraphy, Pelasgiotes are mentioned among other Thessalian ambassadors in Athensc. 353 BC.[3]A fragment of a marble stele at Larissa records that on request of theRoman consulQuintus Caecilius Metellus,son of Quintus, "friend and benefactor of our country [ethnei hēmōn] "in return for services rendered by him, his family and theRoman Senate and People,theThessalian Leaguedecreed to send 43,000 coffers of wheat toRome,to be taxed from different regions under the league. The Pelasgiotes and the Phthiotes are to provide 32,000 while the Histiaeotes and Thessaliotes must provide the remaining 11,000, with 25% going to the army, all in different months.[4]
The regional and ethnic toponym is a reminiscentPelasgianelement from the Thessalian past. As in other parts of Thessaly,Aeolic Greekinscriptions are attested and after 2nd century BC,Koine Greek.
During the Thessalian Games at Larissa toZeusEleuthereus in the 1st century BC, several winner athletes are described as "Thessalian from Larissa of Pelasgis" (Θεσσαλὸς ἀπὸ Λαρίσης τῆς Πελασγίδος,Thessalos apo Larisēs tēs Pelasgidos).[5]The 3rd-century BC funerary epigram for Erilaos ofKalchedonmentions alsoΛάρισα τᾶι Πελασγίδι,Larisa tai Pelasgidi.[6]
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[edit]References
[edit]- An inventory of archaic and classical poleis By Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine NielsenPage 682ISBN0-19-814099-1(2004)
- ^Geographica9.5.3,15
- ^Wheeler James T., The Geography of Herodotus...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and Discoveries. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, LCCN 05006215page 85
- ^IG II² 175
- ^"Central Greece: Thessaly: Larisa: SEG 34:558".Searchable Greek Inscriptions.The Packard Humanities Institute. 2007. lines 16-56.Retrieved2008-01-24.150-130 BC
- ^IG IX,2 528,IG IX,2 534
- ^SEG 47:735
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