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LELEGES
, the name applied by See also:Greek writers to an See also:early See also:people or peoples of which traces were believed to remain in Greek lands
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In See also:Asia See also:Minor.—In See also:Homer the I.eleges are See also:allies of the Trojans, but they do not occur in the formal See also:catalogue in Iliad,
a The number of See also:women attending the university as students in any semester is limited by the See also:founding See also: Gargara in the Troad also counted as Lelegian . Pherecydes (5th century) attributed to Leleges the See also:coast See also:land of Caria from See also:Ephesus to See also:Phocaea, with the islands of See also:Samos and See also:Chios, placing the " true Carians " farther See also:south from Ephesus to See also:Miletus . If this statement be from Pherecydes of Leros (c . 48o) it has See also:great See also:weight . In the 4th century, how-ever, See also:Philippus of Theangela in south Caria describes Leleges still surviving as See also:serfs of the true Carians, and See also:Strabo, in the 1st century B.C., attributes to the Leleges a well-marked See also:group of deserted forts, tombs and dwellings which ranged (and can still be traced) from the neighbourhood of Theangela and See also:Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the See also:southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes . See also:Plutarch also implies the historic existence of Lelegian serfs at See also:Tralles in the interior . 2 . In See also:Greece and the See also:Aegean.—A single passage in the Hesiodic catalogue (fr . 136 See also:Kinkel) places Leleges " in See also:Deucalion's time," i.e. as a See also:primitive people, in Locris in central Greece . Not until the 4th century B.C. does any other writer See also:place them anywhere See also:west of the Aegean . But the confusion of the Leleges with the Carians (immigrant conquerors akin to Lydians and Mysians, and probably to Phrygians) which first appears in a Cretan See also:legend (quoted by Herodotus, but repudiated, as he says, by the Carians themselves) and is repeated by See also:Callisthenes, See also:Apollodorus and other later writers, led easily to the See also:suggestion of Callisthenes, that Leleges joined the Carians in their (See also:half legendary) raids on the coasts of Greece . Meanwhile other writers from the 4th century onwards claimed to discover them in See also:Boeotia, west See also:Acarnania (Leucas), and later again in See also:Thessaly, See also:Euboea, See also:Megara, See also:Lacedaemon and Messenia . In 1\Iessenia they were reputed immigrant founders of See also:Pylos, and were connected with the seafaring Taphians and Teleboans of Homer, and distinguished from the See also:Pelasgians; in Lacedaemon and in Leucas they were believed to be aboriginal . These See also:European Leleges must be interpreted in connexion with the recurrence of place names like Pedasus, Physcus, Larymna and See also:Abae, (a) in, Caria, and (b) in the " Lelegian " parts of Greece; perhaps this is the result of some early See also:migration; perhaps it is also the cause of these Lelegian theories . See also:Modern speculations (mainly corollaries of Indo-Germanic theory) add little of value to the Greek accounts quoted above . H . See also:Kiepert (" Uber den Volksstamm der Leleges," in Monatsber . Berl . Akad., 1861, p . 114) makes the Leleges an aboriginal people akin to Albanians and Illyrians; K . W . Deimling, See also:Die Leleger (See also:Leipzig, 1862), starts them in south-west Asia Minor, and brings them thence to Greece (practically the Greek view) ; G . F . Unger, " Hellas in Thessalien," in Philologus, Suppl. ii . (1863), makes them Phoenician, and derives their name from aaXagew (cf. the names ,36.0apos,Wdische) . E . See also:Curtius (See also:History of Greece, i.) distinguished a " Lelegian " phase of nascent Aegean culture . Most later writers follow Deimling . For Strabo's " Lelegian " monuments, cf . See also:Paton and Myres, See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies, xvi . 188-27o . (J . L . |
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