Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Molossians" in English language version.
The proto-Greeks split progressively... are known (Molosssians...).
The proposition, that the Molossian kings aroud 500 B.C. were descended from the grandfather of Achilles, Aiakos, born some 800 years earlier, was not doubted by writers of the Classical period.
A very large cemetery, estimated to have a hundred tumuli, is being excavated at Koutsokrano in Pogoni, the homeland of the Molossian group of tribes.
Thanks to their peaceful trade with the Molossians, the Epirotes were always friends of the Corinthians down to the last decades of the fifth century B . C ., when the king of the Molossoi, Tharyps, embarked upon a pro - Athenian policy .
We are left with the vexed question as to what language there Epirotes tribes spoke. Greek scholars, followed by most people in the West, would have them speaking Greek
The Proto Greek Region... Μολοσσία, Μολοττία, a derivative of the tribal name Μολοσσοί, and the personal name Μολοσσός ,
"Proto-Greek has been located by Georgiev (1981) to northwestern Greece... around 2500 BC.
In Epirus the peoples involved seem to have been Greek-speakers not universally regarded as "Greek" by other Greeks.
In the centre of all this... real origin of the Greek were Epirote.
Its emblem was the Molossian hound, and the issuing authority, the Molossoi, was inscribed around a Molossian shield and it was accompanied by a bronaze coinage which laster until c. 330 B.C.
The inscription was dated, by Cabanes, in the years before 330 / 328 BC, the last years of Alexander I.s reign. M. seems to trust in Hammond's restoration of the name of the king (Neoptolemus, Alexander's son) in the last line of the inscription: in fact, it is very unlikely (an unicum, in all epigraphic sources in Epirus) that the name of the king would be listed after the name of the prostatas and of the other officials (political, in common scholars' opinion, or religious, as M. suggests).
The inscription was dated, by Cabanes, in the years before 330 / 328 BC, the last years of Alexander I.s reign. M. seems to trust in Hammond's restoration of the name of the king (Neoptolemus, Alexander's son) in the last line of the inscription: in fact, it is very unlikely (an unicum, in all epigraphic sources in Epirus) that the name of the king would be listed after the name of the prostatas and of the other officials (political, in common scholars' opinion, or religious, as M. suggests).
The inscription was dated, by Cabanes, in the years before 330 / 328 BC, the last years of Alexander I.s reign. M. seems to trust in Hammond's restoration of the name of the king (Neoptolemus, Alexander's son) in the last line of the inscription: in fact, it is very unlikely (an unicum, in all epigraphic sources in Epirus) that the name of the king would be listed after the name of the prostatas and of the other officials (political, in common scholars' opinion, or religious, as M. suggests).