Pelasgis

Or Pelasga, i. e. the Pelasgian (woman or goddess), occurs as a surname of the Thessalian Hera,1 and of Demeter, who, under this name, had a temple at Argos, and was believed to have derived the surname from Pelasgus (2), the son of Triopas, who had founded her sanctuary.2

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References

Notes

  1. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 14, with the Scholiast; Sextus Propertius. Elegies ii, 28. 11.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 22.2.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.