Pelasga
(Πελασγίς), or PELASGIS, i. e. the Pelasgian (woman or goddess), occurs as a surname of the Thessalian Hera (Apollon. 1.14, with the Schol.; Propert. 2.28. 11), and of Demeter, who, under this name, had a temple at Argos, and was believed to have derived the surname from Pelasgus, the son of Triopas, who had founded her sanctuary. (Paus. 2.22.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.