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Plutarkhos [ ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΣ ] writes about the king Pyrrhos - BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠYPPOY
Pyrrhus [ΠΥΡΡΟΣ] was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house,and later he became king of Epirus.
"Pyrrhos, who yielded to none of the kings in daring and prowess, and wished that the glory of Achilles should belong to him by right of valour rather than of blood alone", wrote Plutarkhos of this Eperiote king.
Dodona in Epeiros, the site of a theatre built by Pyrrhos himself, was in fact mentioned by Homer as the location of an oracle of Zeus: Achilles prays to "High Zeus, Lord of Dodona, Pelasgian, living afar off, brooding over wintry Dodona", while in the Odyssey, the eponymous hero refers to an oracle at Dodona when speaking to the swineherd Eumaeus.
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Pyrrhus [ΠΥΡΡΟΣ] was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house,and later he became king of Epirus.
"Pyrrhos, who yielded to none of the kings in daring and prowess, and wished that the glory of Achilles should belong to him by right of valour rather than of blood alone", wrote Plutarkhos of this Eperiote king.
Dodona in Epeiros, the site of a theatre built by Pyrrhos himself, was in fact mentioned by Homer as the location of an oracle of Zeus: Achilles prays to "High Zeus, Lord of Dodona, Pelasgian, living afar off, brooding over wintry Dodona", while in the Odyssey, the eponymous hero refers to an oracle at Dodona when speaking to the swineherd Eumaeus.
Click for more coin images of the king Pyrrhos [ΠΥΡΡΟΣ]