The word " tyrannos ", possibly pre-Greek, Pelasgian or eastern in origin, then carried no ethical censure; it simply referred to anyone, good or bad, who obtained executive power in a polis by unconventional means.
42.
At the end of the " Okeanos Potamos ", is the holy island of Alba ( Leuke, Pytho Nisi, Isle of Snakes ), sacred to the Pelasgian ( and later, Greek ) Apollo, greeting the sun rising in the east.
43.
Even a cautious reading of the subtext as a vehicle for legendary history suggests that a Pelasgian kingship in archaic Argos was overcome, not without violence, by seafarers out of Egypt ( compare the Sea Peoples ), whose leaders then intermarried with the local dynasty.
44.
In the " Iliad " ( circa 750 BCE ), Achilles prays to " High Zeus, Lord of Dodona, Pelasgian, living afar off, brooding over wintry Dodona " ( thus demonstrating that Zeus also could be invoked from a distance ).
45.
Among controversial claims Aristotle, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Alexander the Great, and Phillip II of Macedon ( along with all the ancient Macedonians ) were Pelasgian-Illyrian-Albanian and that ancient Greek culture ( and thus the result of the Hellenistic civilisation ) had been spread by Albanians.
46.
Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lempri�re pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.
47.
Leto, the Hyperborean goddess, after nine days and nine nights of labour on the island of Delos ( Pelasgian for hill, related to tell ) " gave birth to the great god of the antique light " ( Pseudo-Apollodorus, " Bibliotheca ", I . 4.1 ).
48.
For Jane Ellen Harrison, simply recalling that a triple Hera, perhaps of Pelasgian origin, was venerated at Stymphalos in Arcadia as maiden child, wife and even widow, was sufficient " to enable us to recognize in her the year-goddess in the three Greek seasons, spring, summer-autumn and winter.
49.
Some claim that the word means " undrinkable " in Greek, but it may instead be linked to the Persian root " spand " or " aspand ", or the variant " esfand ", which meant " Pelasgian word, marked by the non-Indo-European consonant complex ?? (-nth ).
50.
The "'Hyantes "', descendants of Hyas & mdash; or rather of the Hyades, for the fertility of rain-nymphs needs no male consort & mdash; were the original ( " Pelasgian " ) inhabitants of Boeotia, from which country they were expelled by the followers of Cadmus ( Peck; Pliny's Natural History, iv . 12 ).
