Thus, as before we found that what we term Thessaly is to Homer ‘the Argos of the Pelasgians,’ so we now find that people associated with the original and central worship of the Greek Jupiter, as having probably been the race to whom it owed its establishment. And thus, though the Pelasgians were not politically predominant in Thessaly at the epoch of the _Troica_, yet Thessaly is Pelasgian Argos: though they were not possessed of the Dodonæan oracle, yet Jupiter of Dodona is Pelasgian Jupiter: two branches of testimony, the first of which exhibits them as the earliest known colonisers of the country, and the second as the reputed founders of the prime article of its religion. We must not quit this subject without referring to the evidence of Hesiod, which, though second in importance to that of Homer, is before any other literary testimony. He refers twice to Dodona. Neither time does he appear to carry it to the westward. In one passage he connects it immediately with the Pelasgians; Δωδώνην, φῆγόν τε, Πελασγῶν ἕδρανον, ἧκεν[137]. In the other passage, he associates it with the Hellic name through the medium of the territorial designation Hellopia: ἐστί τις Ἑλλοπίη πολυλήϊος ἠδ’ εὐλείμων, ἔνθα τε Δωδώνη τις ἐπ’ ἐσχατίῃ πεπόλισται[138]. Thus, in exact accordance with Homer, he associates Dodona with two and only two names of race, the same two as those with which it is associated in the invocation of Achilles. _Thessaly and the Southern Islands._ III. Next, we find in Homer a widely spread connection between Thessaly and the islands which form as it were the base of the Ægean sea. From these islands he enumerates four contingents furnished to the Greek army: 1. From Crete, under Idomeneus (Il. ii. 645). 2. From Rhodes, under Tlepolemus (653). 3. From Syme, under Nireus (671). 4. From Nisyrus, the Calydnæ, and other minor islands, under Pheidippus and Antiphus (676). 1. As to Crete. Universal tradition connects the name of Deucalion with Thessaly. But he was the son, according to Homer, of Minos, who was the ruler or warden of Crete (Κρήτῃ ἐπίουρος, Il. xiii. 450): and he was also the father of Idomeneus, leader of the Cretans before Troy (Il. xiii. 452), and ruler over many of them (ibid.), but not, so far as appears, over the whole island.