Pyrrhus

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Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos Πύῤῥος or Pyrros Πύρρος may refer to the following figures from Greek history and mythology:

  • Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, son of Achilles
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272 BC), famous king
  • Pyrrhus II of Epirus, late 3rd century BC, brother of Ptolemy
  • Pyrrhus, son of Pantaleon Elean king[1]
  • Pyrrho (360-270 BC), philosopher
  • Pyrrhus, Macedonian mechanician (perhaps Pyrrhus I of Epirus when he was king of Macedon)[2]
  • Pyrrhus of Thessalonica, fortificator of the city's walls (last epigraphical evidence of the name) (ca. 620-630 AD)[3]
  • Pyrrhus, architect who built the treasury of Epidamnians in Olympia, along with his sons Lacrates and Hermon
  • Pyrrhus of Athens, 5th century BC sculptor mentioned by Pliny and an epigraphy in Acropolis
  • Pyrrhus of Erythrae or Lesbos, poet mentioned by Theocritus
  • Pyrrhus, wrestler in Hellenistic Egypt[4]

[edit] Modern use

[edit] Other uses

  • Pyrrhus of Therme (late 6th/early 5th c. BC) earliest epigraphical evidence[5]
  • Agathobulus FL Pyrrhus, a freedman whose name occurs in an inscription found at Pesaro
  • Pyrrhus, father of Deinolochus Elean Olympic victor[6]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

  1. ^ Pausanias 6.22.4
  2. ^ Athenaeus Mechanicus, On Machines = Peri Mēchanēmatōn Page 72 By Athenaeus, David Whitehead, P. H. Blyth ISBN 3515085327
  3. ^ SEG 48:849bis
  4. ^ Athletics in the Ancient World Page 116 By E. Norman Gardiner ISBN 0486424863
  5. ^ SEG 46:809
  6. ^ Pausanias 6.1.4
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