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=== The term "Pelasgians" in ancient sources ===
Ancient Greek authors used the term "Pelasgian" fluidly. Pelasgians could be presented as [[pre-Greek]], [[Barbarian|non-Greek]], semi-Greek, or [[Greeks|Greek]] as a [[rhetoric]]al device to advance a particular author's objective. Such objectives included uniting Greeks, distinguishing Greeks from foreign "barbarians", and establishing an imagined historical foundation for a shared cultural and political identity. There are no extant ''[[emic]]'' (self-identified) definitions of Pelasgian identity.{{sfn|Lambright|2022|pp=2, 31, 106–110}}