Pyrrhus II (
Greek
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: Πύρρος) was the son of
Olympias II and
Alexander II of Epirus
Alexander II (Greek: Άλέξανδρος) was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.
Reign
He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had be ...
. He was a brother of
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
and
Phthia of Macedon. He ruled as
king
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of
Epirus
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from 255BC to 237BC. He had two daughters:
Deidamia II who was the last ruler of the
Aeacid Dynasty and
Nereis
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who married
Gelon of Syracuse
Gelon also known as Gelo (Greek: Γέλων ''Gelon'', ''gen.'': Γέλωνος; died 478 BC), son of Deinomenes, was a Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, Sicily, and first of the Deinomenid rulers.
Early life
Gelon was t ...
.
References
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Smith, William (editor); ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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'', ,
Boston
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, (1867)
*
Smith, William (editor); ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' is a biographical dictionary of classical antiquity, edited by William Smith (lexicographer), William Smith and originally published in London by John Taylor (English publisher), Tayl ...
'', ,
Boston
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, (1867)
Kings of Epirus
Ancient Greek monarchs
3rd-century BC Greek people
Ancient Epirotes
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