atalante
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posted 06-26-2004 01:17 PM
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Docyabut,
You asked about the Sea Peoples (and Libyans).
I think we are off-topic here. But this is a very remarkable link, about how southern Italy started to be populated, beginning 1800 BC.
http://www.arcaini.com/ITALY/ItalyHistory/OriginNameItaly.htm There was a group in Italy called the Pelasgi, who were sailors. They are basically the same peple whom Greeks called Pelasgians. One of their great leaders was Oenotreus who led people west to Italy from the Peloponese of Greece.
Greek myth tells us that, when the Mycenaens began seizing and settling the northeastern Peloponese, Zeus went to war with the older Arcadian people, and their "evil" king Lycaon 2.
In my opinion, it was the Mycenaen destruction of the homeland of these Pelasgians/Pelasgi which converted them into a loose association of
Sea Pirates (which modern historians call the Sea Peoples).
[This message has been edited by atalante (edited 06-26-2004).]
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