Re: The "Sea People" were Greeks


"SteveT" <nextbigthing1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:iobah1l71oscg6alp3q9b9me23bc0renih@xxxxxxxxxx 
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:06:57 +0100, "Agamemnon"
<agamemnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"SteveT" <nextbigthing1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:30:03 +0300, "gogu" <golanule@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I don't know much but IIRC they were called "Pelestes" alas the name
"Palestinians".
Is it possible that the Palestinians are descendants of those first
(Hellenic
?...) colonists ?
Is there any truth in that ?

tnx 

I remember the term "Peleset", & no doubt there are many ways of
interpretting Egyptian which arrive at different spellings. I' not
sure about "Hellenic", most people seem to describe the incomers as
"Aegean". It also seems that they integrated with the local population
quite quickly. So my impression is that "Palestinian" might be derived
from "Peleset", but that the Palestinians probably remain a Canaanite
people who "absorbed" some Aegean immigrants.


Rubbish.

The Peleset were Pelasgian Greeks and linguistic analyses of their names and
inscriptions have proven this.

What was a Pelasgian Greek? "Pelasgian" being the term most often used
to describe the pre-Greek inhabitants of the Aegean.

The Pelasgians were the original inhabitants of Arkadia who were named after their king Pelasgos who built the first cities there. Some of them migrated to Thessaly after the Deukalion flood and from there they migrated to where Herodotus says he found them.

Pelasgian was a dialect of Greek related to Mycenaean Arcado-Cypriot.

After the Trojan War Agapenor the king of the Arkadian Pelasgians migrated to Cyprus and it is his Pelasgians that are referred to by Ramses III.


Steve


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