Lanassa (mythology)

Lanassa ( Greek Λάνασσα , also Λεώνασσα , Leonassa ) is considered in ancient tradition as the mythical ancestor of the Molossian royal house of Epirus .

She is said to have been either a great-granddaughter or a granddaughter of the Greek legendary hero Heracles . When Neoptolemus , the son of Achilles , made his way back after heroic deeds in the Trojan War , he conquered Epirus according to one of the many legends, kidnapped Lanassa forcibly from the temple of Zeus at Dodona and married her. According to Plutarch, they had a son named Pyrrhus , according to which around 200 BC. She had eight children as Leonassa with Neoptolemus , the mythographer Lysimachos who wrote in BC : Argos , Pergamos , Dorieus , Pandaros , Eurymachos , Eraos , Danaë and Troas .

literature

Otto Höfer : Leonassa . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1944 ( digitized version ).
Magdalena Schmidt: Lanassa 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 1, Stuttgart 1924, Col. 617.

Remarks

↑ So Plutarch ( Pyrrhos 1,2), who describes Lanassa as the daughter of Cleodaios and granddaughter of the Heracles son Hyllos .
↑ So Justin 17,3,4.
↑ Plutarch, Pyrrhos 1,2.
↑ Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.

[1] So Plutarch ( Pyrrhos 1,2), who describes Lanassa as the daughter of Cleodaios and granddaughter of the Heracles son Hyllos .

[2] So Justin 17,3,4.

[3] Plutarch, Pyrrhos 1,2.

[4] Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.