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Pyrrhus of Epirus

Pyrrhus
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King of Epirus
Reign 297–272
Predecessor Neoptolemus II
Successor Alexander II
Reign 306–302
Predecessor Alcetas II
Successor Neoptolemus II
King of Macedonia
Reign 274–272
Predecessor Antigonus II
Successor Antigonus II
Reign 288–285
Predecessor Demetrius I
Successor Antigonus II
Born 318 BC
Epirus (now Greece)
Died 272 BC (aged about 46)
Argos, Peloponnese (now Greece)
Consort
Issue
Dynasty Aeacidae
Father Aeacides
Mother Phthia
Religion Greek Paganism

Pyrrhus (/ˈpɪrəs/; Πύρρος, Pyrrhos; 319/318–272 BC) was a Greek general and of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house (from c. 297 BC), and later he became king of Epirus (r. 306–302, 297–272 BC) and Macedon (r. 288–284, 273–272 BC). He was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. Some of his battles, though successful, caused him heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined. He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.

Pyrrhus was the son of Aeacides and Phthia, a Thessalian woman, and a second cousin of Alexander the Great (via Alexander's mother, Olympias). He had two sisters: Deidamia and Troias. In 317 BC, when Pyrrhus was only two, his father was dethroned. Pyrrhus' family took refuge with Glaukias of the Taulantians, one of the largest Illyrian tribes. Pyrrhus was raised by Beroea, Glaukias's wife and a Molossian of the Aeacidae dynasty.


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