From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62001
Date: 2008-12-10
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From: "stlatos" <stlatos@...>
With this meaning of the word in place its oddity of use in ancient
sources becomes more clear. From the point of view of historical
Greeks, both "indigenous" people AND earlier waves of Greek conquerors
were both older inhabitants who could be described as Pelastikoi.
Though there may have been confusion even at that time, the apparent
use for both does not itself indicate confusion; saying that P. lived
there before Greeks and that P. were Greeks would mean that there were
non-Greeks, then Greeks, then other Greeks.
Going as far back as I can, the sequence would be:
?
non-IE people
Indo-Iranian-speaking conquerors
Greek conquerors 1
Greek conquerors 2
Greek conquerors 3
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Why should be the first layer be non IE ?
We have plenty of connections with Anatolian.
Where were proto-Greek speakers,
if Indo-Iranian (??) arrived before proto-Greeks ?
Where are the traces that Indo-Iranian (??) ever existed in Greece ?
I don't buy a word of this theory.
A.