News before the Illyrian tribes and their place we find that the earliest monuments of Hellenic literature , which in Homer's poems of Hesiod .
In Homer's poems also find some that are subject to the history of Illyria , eg paioneve poem 's participation in the Trojan War , for localization of their settlements , land fertility thespoteve ( Epirus ) , etc. . Talking about the Illyrians paionë participation in the fight against ahejve Troy , Homer equates their military chiefs , who came from " Paionia fertile " with leaders of ahejve and Trojans . In a poem " The Odyssey " fame Feidonin , leader of Thesprotia noble origin , who once harbored and welcomed in his palace Odyssey , back to home , made one of his ships to quickly send it in Ithaca . According to this mythical story , Feidoni here represents one of the leaders who lived in one of the richest palaces Thesprotia . These were its ships that served the people .
More meaningful in this direction is a story of Herodotus , according to which , Klistheni , when invited to Sikione (ca. 570 Pesona ) all men will feel himself worthy to have married his daughter Agaristën , among those that were presented to the oppression that some Alkoni by molos . According to this story , this molosas must have been from a family princore or very rich, who claimed to be allied with a major slave Greece at that time , it was Klistheni .
These bits are written news older who have the history of Illyria Interest Greek writers regions of Illyria and Illyrians was added especially in the century. E.sonë VI - V century , when the eastern shores of the Adriatic colonies were established as Dyrrahu Hellenistic , Apollonia , Buthroti , etc. . Close ties to the metropolis wore these cities , as well as frequent arrivals of passengers known to Greek traders traded with countries rich in minerals as well as agricultural and livestock products Illyria , made the Greek world at this time to obtain more complete knowledge of the exact Illyria Illyrians .