Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)
Lanassa was a daughter of King Agathocles of Syracuse , probably of his second wife Alkia. 295 BC Agathocles established family ties with the Molossian king Pyrrhus by giving him Lanassa as his wife. The Syracusan king personally escorted his daughter with his warships to her bridegroom in Epirus and conquered the city of Croton on the way . This marriage brought Pyrrhus the island of Korkyra as a dowry. From the couple's marriage in 294 or 293 BC. A son named Alexandros . But since Lanassa did not want to accept that Pyrrhus would get more wives in polygamy , she left him in 291 BC. And went to Korkyra. Proposing this island as a dowry, she wooed Demetrios I Poliorketes, who was then ruling Macedonia, as a new husband. The much sought-after Diadoche also came, entered into a marriage with Lanassa - although this was doubted by some researchers - and had his new acquisition Korkyra occupied by the military for security. As the former husband of Lanassa, Pyrrhus was able to assert inheritance claims in Sicily after the death of Agathocles (289 BC), on the basis of which the Syracusans themselves also made him claim in 279 BC. Asked for support against the Carthaginians .
literature
- Felix Stähelin : Lanassa 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Col. 617 f.
- Bernhard Kytzler : women of antiquity. From Aspasia to Zenobia. Artemis, Munich & Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-7608-1224-4 , p. 99.
Remarks
- ↑ Diodorus 21, 4; Plutarch , Pyrrhus 9.
- ↑ Diodorus 22, 8, 2; Plutarch, Pyrrhus 9.
- ↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhos 10.
- ↑ Diodorus 22, 8, 2.
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| SURNAME | Lanassa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of the Syracusan king Agathocles, wife of Pyrrhus and Demetrios Poliorketes |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |