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The style of the building showed that it dated from pre-Greek times, when the Great Gods were young.

From Time Magazine Archive

These and their like were what the pre-Greek world worshiped.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The Aegean Culture Preceded the Coming of the Greeks.—Spreading over the islands of the Aegean Sea was a pre-Greek civilization known as Minoan.

From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)

The only real Pelasgian problem, concludes Meyer, is whether the Thessalian Pelasgians were a Greek or pre-Greek people, and he is inclined to favour the latter view.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

He devoted himself to the study of Eastern language and history in its pre-Greek and Hellenistic periods and contributed largely to the literature of the subject.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various