decided to help restore Pyrrhus to his kingdom. He provided Pyrrhus with men and funds and sent him back to Epirus. Pyrrhus returned to Epirus at the...

Look up Pyrrhus or Πύῤῥος in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pyrrhus, Pyrrhos or Pyrros (Πύρρος) may refer to: Pyrrhus of Epirus (318–272 BC), king of...

Syracuse to Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus arranges peace between them. Embassies from many Sicilian cities come to Pyrrhus offering their support. Pyrrhus takes control...

nov.", pp. 308, 310.) Crotalus pyrrhus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 December 2007. C. m. pyrrhus at California Reptiles and Amphibians...

John Dryden) Pyrrhus, hosted on The Internet Classics Archive Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri, IV, 1.15. Plutarch. "The Life of Pyrrhus". Parallel Lives...

Pyrrhus III, king of Epirus in 234 BC, was a son of Ptolemy and a grandson of Alexander II. He ascended to the throne in 234 BC. Pyrrhus III was assassinated...

Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese in 272 BC was an invasion of south Greece by Pyrrhus, King of Epirus. He was opposed by Macedon and a coalition of...

The desert death adder (Acanthophis pyrrhus) is a species of snake native to Australia and is one of the most venomous land snakes in the world. The desert...

Cassander, but was dethroned in 313 BC. Aeacides's son Pyrrhus came to the throne in 295 BC. Pyrrhus, being a skillful general, was encouraged to aid the...

after resting his army, Pyrrhus marched to Asculum to confront the Romans. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Pyrrhus had 70,000 infantry, of whom...

Pyrrhus and Cineas (original title: Pyrrhus et Cinéas) is Simone de Beauvoir's first philosophical essay. It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes...

between Pyrrhus and Lysimachus, but, "like two wolves sharing a piece of meat", they soon fought over it with the result that Lysimachus drove Pyrrhus out...

performance was recorded and subsequently released in 2014. Pyrrhus, Alain Buet (Pyrrhus), Guillemette Laurens (Eriphile), Emmanuelle de Negri (Polixène)...

stepfather, king Ptolemy I Soter of Egypt, who was a benefactor to Pyrrhus in his youth. When Pyrrhus returned from Italy in 274 BC Ptolemy captured the island...

a war with Epirus. In the spring of 280 BC Pyrrhus landed without losses in Italy. After hearing of Pyrrhus' arrival in Italy the Romans mobilized eight...

Athenians to Athena and Hygeia. Pyrrhus the Athenian made it. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Pyrrhus artists.2 The Monuments of Athens:...

(possibly strategic) and Pyrrhus was forced to return to Tarentum, and later to Epirus. The Pyrrhic War broke out when Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, in...

Mr Gully takes as his own the Derby stakes, And Pyrrhus is the First in fact as well as name." Pyrrhus The First was withdrawn from the Welcome Stakes...

Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, in which he was defeated by Pyrrhus of Epirus. In his Life of Pyrrhus, Plutarch wrote that Gaius Fabricius Luscinus said of...

Pyrrhus II (Greek: Πύρρος) was the son of Olympias II and Alexander II of Epirus. He was a brother of Ptolemy and Phthia of Macedon. He ruled as king...

Νεοπτόλεμος, romanized: Neoptólemos, lit. 'new warrior'), originally called Pyrrhus at birth (/ˈpɪrəs/; Πύρρος, Pýrrhos, 'red'), was the son of the warrior...

Charaxes (Polyura) pyrrhus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It...

in Songs in the Opera Call'd Pyrrhus and Demetrius. In May 1709 a different edition of The Songs in the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius was published by...

Areus I, and Macedonian reinforcements, prompting Pyrrhus to abandon the siege. After this failure, Pyrrhus ravaged the Spartan hinterland whilst fending...

with the death of Pyrrhus and the surrender of his army. In 275 BC, after campaigning in Italy and Sicily for seven years, king Pyrrhus of Epirus returned...

Pyrrhus (Greek: Πύρρος; died 1 June 654) was the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople from 20 December 638 to 29 September 641, and again from 9 January...

In Nonnus's fifth-century AD epic poem the Dionysiaca, Pyrrhus (Ancient Greek: Πύρρος, romanized: Púrrhos, lit. 'fiery') is a minor figure who was punished...

married Lanassa, the former wife of Pyrrhus, but his new position as ruler of Macedonia was continually threatened by Pyrrhus, who took advantage of his occasional...

repeated by Pausanias (x 25.4), he was killed by Neoptolemus (also called Pyrrhus), who threw the infant from the walls, as predicted by Andromache in the...

Molossian dynasty was Pyrrhus, who became famous for his several Pyrrhic victories in battle over the Romans. According to Plutarch, Pyrrhus was the son of Aeacides...