- The
Leleges (/ˈlɛlɪdʒiːz/;
Ancient Gr****: Λέλεγες) were an
aboriginal people of the
Aegean region,
before the Gr****s arrived. They were
distinct from...
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closely related to Luwian. Also
closely ****ociated with the
Carians were the
Leleges,
which could be an
earlier name for Carians. Cramer's
detailed catalog...
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often linked by Gr****
writers to the
Leleges, but the
exact nature of the
relationship between Carians and
Leleges remains mysterious. The two
groups seem...
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Lelegid were the
descendants of
Lelex (a back-formation),
ancestor of the
Leleges, an
ancient tribe inhabiting the
Eurotas valley before the Gr****s, who...
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extended to
combine with the
existing Salmacis, an
older town of the
native Leleges and Carians, and site of the
later citadel. The
first settlers were originally...
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Apollo at Didyma. He said that the pre-Ionic
inhabitants of the city were
Leleges and Lydians. Callimachus, in his Hymn to
Artemis attributed the earliest...
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three previous Gr**** names: Lelégōn Pólis (Λελέγων πόλις, "City of the
Leleges"), Megálē Pólis (Μεγάλη Πόλις, "Great City"), and Ninóē (Νινόη). Sometime...
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Towards the sea lie the
Carians and the Paeonians, with
curved bows, and the
Leleges and Caucones, and the
goodly Pelasgi. In the Odyssey, they
appear among...
- from the Acarnanians, who were
called so
because they were
unshorn – and
Leleges originally inhabited the country, but at an
early period Gr****s from Elis...
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became women; Deucalion's
became men.
These people were
later called the
Leleges who po****ted Locris. This can be
related to Pindar's
account that recounted...
