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...

1885 Lanassa capensis Day, 1955 Lanassa exelysis Hutchings & Glasby, 1988 Lanassa gracilis (Moore, 1923) Lanassa nordenskioeldi Malmgren, 1866 Lanassa nordenskioldi...

Lanassa (Greek: Λάνασσα) was a daughter of king Agathocles of Syracuse, Sicily, Magna Graecia, perhaps by his second wife Alcia. In 295 BC, Agathocles...

was back in Epirus, Pyrrhus suffered another setback. His second wife, Lanassa, daughter of the self-proclaimed king of Sicily Agathocles of Syracuse...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

father in his ambitious campaigns conducted in the Italian peninsula. Lanassa, one of the wives of Pyrrhus, left him because she claimed that he took...