Italy alongside the Latins. The 7th-century BC Homeric Hymn to Dionysus referred to them as pirates.

In the 5th century BC, some Greek writers began to associate "Tyrrhenians" and Pelasgians, with some using these terms merely as generic labels for "non-Greeks" and for the supposed indigenous ancestors of the Greeks. Logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos, derived the Tyrrhenians from a Pelasgian migration out of Thessaly