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Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)

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143:, if he would become her new husband. The courted diadoch came to Corcyra, married Lanassa, and occupied the island. After the death of Agathocles (289 BC) Pyrrhus, as former husband of Lanassa, asserted hereditary claims to 135:
and Helenus. However, Lanassa could not accept her husband's polygamous lifestyle, and so she left Pyrrhus in 291 BC, went to Corcyra, and offered this island as dowry to
261: 276: 127:. Agathocles himself escorted his daughter with his fleet to Epirus to her groom. Lanassa brought the island of 147:. On the basis of these claims, the inhabitants of Syracuse asked Pyrrhus in 279 BC for assistance against 266: 140: 271: 136: 132: 112: 88: 76: 64: 191: 8: 124: 71: 60: 186: 148: 116: 123:, perhaps by his second wife Alcia. In 295 BC, Agathocles married Lanassa to King 255: 120: 108: 162: 196: 128: 169:(in German). Vol. XII, 1. Stuttgart: Butcher. cols. 617–18. 144: 167:
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as dowry into the marriage. The couple had two sons:
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Index

Pyrrhus of Epirus
Demetrius I of Macedon
Issue
Alexander II of Epirus
Agathocles of Syracuse
Greek
Agathocles
Syracuse, Sicily
Magna Graecia
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Corcyra
Alexander
Demetrius I Poliorcetes
Macedonia
Sicily
Carthage
"Lanassa 2"
Diodorus Siculus
Bibliotheca historica
Plutarch
Categories
Ancient Epirote queens consort
Ancient Syracusans
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Demetrius I Poliorcetes

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