Lanassa was the name of some ancient noble women: the mythical ancestress of the royal dynasty of the Molossians in Epirus. According to some accounts...
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Lanassa (Greek: Λάνασσα) was a daughter of king Agathocles of Syracuse, Sicily, Magna Graecia, perhaps by his second wife Alcia. In 295 BC, Agathocles...
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1885 Lanassa capensis Day, 1955 Lanassa exelysis Hutchings & Glasby, 1988 Lanassa gracilis (Moore, 1923) Lanassa nordenskioeldi Malmgren, 1866 Lanassa nordenskioldi...
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was back in Epirus, Pyrrhus suffered another setback. His second wife, Lanassa, daughter of the self-proclaimed king of Sicily Agathocles of Syracuse...
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II (Greek: Άλέξανδρος) was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles. He succeeded his father...
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scattered through the land of Ambracia, which is in the district of Epirus. By Lanassa, granddaughter of Heracles, he fathered eight children. Like in Euripides's...
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murdered in 307 BC. His second wife was Alcia and they had a daughter Lanassa, second wife of King Pyrrhus of Epirus, and a son Agathocles, who was murdered...
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secured the region after capturing Thebes in 291 BC. That year he married Lanassa, the former wife of Pyrrhus, but his new position as ruler of Macedonia...
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conquered by Agathocles of Syracuse. He offered Corfu as dowry to his daughter Lanassa on her marriage to Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. The island then became a member...
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the third attempt to capture Mycenae and failed. He also had a daughter Lanassa, who married Neoptolemus and had by him several children, one of whom was...
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