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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. r. 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:grant to 500. 3 See also:President See also:Jordan was See also:born in 1851 at See also:Gainesville, New See also:York; was educated at Cornell, where he taught See also:botany fora See also:time; be, came an- assistant to the See also:United States See also:fish See also:commission in 1872; in 1885–1891 was president of the university of See also:Indiana, where from 1879 he had been See also:professor of See also:zoology; and in 1891 was elected president of See also:Leland See also:Stanford Jr. University. An eminent ichthyologist, he wrote, with See also:Barton See also:Warren Evermann (b. 1853), of the United States See also:Bureau of See also:Fisheries, Fishes of See also:North and See also:Middle See also:America (4 vols., 1896–1900), and See also:Food and See also:Game Fishes of North America (1902); and prepared A See also:Guide to the Study of Fishes (1905). bk. ii., and their See also:habitat is not specified. They are distinguished from the Carians, with whom some later writers confused them; they have a See also:king. Altes, and a See also:town Pedasus which was sacked by See also:Achilles. The name Pedasus occurs (i.) near See also:Cyzicus, (ii.) in the See also:Troad on the Satnioeis See also:river, (iii.) in See also:Caria, as well as (iv.) in See also:Messenia. See also:Alcaeus (7th–6th centuries B.C.) calls Antandrus in the Troad Lelegian, but See also:Herodotus (5th See also:century) substitutes Pelasgian (q.v.).

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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