Lanassa
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Lanassa was the name of some ancient noble women:
- the mythical ancestress of the royal dynasty of the MolossiansMolossiansThe Molossians were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus since the Mycenaean era. On their northeast frontier they had the Chaonians and to their southern frontier the kingdom of the Thesprotians, to their north were the Illyrians. The Molossians were part of the League of...
in Epirus - Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)Lanassa was a daughter of king Agathocles of Syracuse, Sicily, perhaps by his second wife Alcia. In 295 BC Agathocles married Lanassa to King Pyrrhus of Epirus. Agathocles himself escorted his daughter with his fleet to Epirus to her groom. Lanassa brought the island of Corcyra as dowry into the...
, a daughter of king Agathocles of Syracuse, wife of king Pyrrhus of Epirus and later of the diadoch Demetrius I of Macedon