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).