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Ancient Greek historians write about
Dodona in
Epirus being the 'seat of the Pelasgians' (
Hesiod), but research shows conflicting information. Some scholars
point out that there were no Pelasgians living in Dodona, but were other nations such as the
Helli and Perrhaebi, who originated in
Thessaly and migrated to Epirus before the
Trojan war.
Others point out how 'Pelasgic' was also an adjective that suggested someone or something being ancient.
Albanians claim that Illyrians were Pelasgians and that Dodona was sacred to them.
History show that Illyrians invaded Epirus many times, and while Dodona was under the authority of Molossians, actually ravaged Dodona until the sacred oak tree that was used as the oracle was cut down by an Illyrian bandit.
There are more quotes here than in the video, so I hope people will read them too.
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-DODONA
'
The Oracle of Dodona is often mentioned in
Homer, and was the most ancient and most celebrated in the early ages of
Greece.'
(
Thomas Smart Hughes,
Joseph Mawman,
Charles,
Travels in
Sicily, Greece and
Albania p511)
'--Pellasgic Dodonaan
Jove. The propriety of these appellations in reference to the speaker
Achilles, will appear, by considering, that the
Myrmidons were a branch of the Pelasgi, and that Dodona is said to have been built by a Pelasgic tribe out of Thessaly. Achilles thus evokes
Jupiter as domestic divinity'
(
A Classical Manual of the Iliad, foot note on book
XVI p
238)
'The scholiast proceeds to tell us that the city of Dodona was founded by
Deucalion, who came to Epirus after the deluge, and consulted the oracular oak, when he was directed by the dove to build the city, which was named Dodona from one of the Oceanides. He adds, that the Pelasgi settled near Dodona, being originally a
Thessalian nation, and though this account is a little different, confirms what we have before mentioned of the Perrhaebi.'
(Thomas Smart Hughes, Joseph Mawman, Charles, Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania p512)
'Dodona had been one of the most ancient places of pilgrimage for the Hellenic race, especially for the Athenians.'
(
George Grote,
History of Greece, p
534)
'It was anciently believed, and apparently not without reason, that three or four centuries before the Trojan war two Pelasgic colonies began to civilize the barbarians of Epirus: that which came from the
Peloponnesus by sea (
...) the other from the Pelasgic settlements in the north of Thessaly crossed the
Pindus and occupied Dodona.'
'
William Martin Leake, Travels in
Northern Greece, p 174)
'The Oracle of
Zeus at Dodona traces its roots back to the early(...) it appears that the Zeus-worshipping
Greeks had imposed their god on the site '
(
John S.
Bowman, Frommer's Greece, p 527)
-Perrhaebic, Helli,
Selli &Gra;ïci
-MOLOSSIANS (Guardings of Dodona)
'Dodona was the oldest oracle in
Hellas. Its origin date back to earlier than
1000 BC. A few temple foundations remain, and the standing walls of the acropolis can still be easily recognized.
The Theater of Dodona rises impressively from the plain, with massive walls up to
20 meters high.
Built during the reign of
King Pyrrhus of Epirus (297-272 BC). Dodona's theater was the second largest in Greece, after that of Megolopolis.'
(
Wolfgang Josing, Greece, pp187-188)
-ILLYRIANS
'The Illyrians were in these ancient times also bounded to the east by the
Phrygians and Thracians, as well as the Pelasgi'
(
Karl Otfried Müller, The History and
Antiquities of the Doric
Race, p 8)
'
Again and again Dodona was ravaged, but so long as the oak was standing the temple rose anew. When at last an Illyrian bandit cut down the oak, the presence of Zeus was gone'
(
Evelyn Abbott Hellenica, p 443)
'The priests were called Tomari, from the neighbouring mountain Tomarus, but they and the oracle were finally put an end to, and the oaks of Dodona felled by an Illyrian peasant'
(
William Douglas Hamilton,
Outlines of the History of Greece, in connection with the rise of the arts p 10)
'sometime in 385/4 the Illyrians invaded Molossis in strength and had to be expelled by
Sparta'
(
P. J. Stylianou, A Historical Commentary on
Diodorus Siculus Book 15, p212)