Pyrrhus
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Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Πύῤῥος) or Pyrros (Πύρρος) may refer to the following figures from Greek history and mythology:
- Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, son of Achilles
- Pyrrhus of Epirus (318–272 BC), famous king, to whom the term Pyrrhic victory alludes
- Pyrrhus II of Epirus, late 3rd century BC, brother of Ptolemy
- Pyrrhus, son of Pantaleon, Elean king
- Pyrrho (360–270 BC), philosopher
- Pyrrhus of Thessalonica, fortificator of the city's walls (last epigraphical evidence of the name) (ca. 620–630 AD)
- Pyrrhus, architect who built the treasury of Epidamnians in Olympia, Greece, along with his sons Lacrates and Hermon
- Pyrrhus of Athens, 5th century BC sculptor mentioned by Pliny and an epigraphy in Acropolis
- Pyrrhus of Erythrae or Lesbos, poet mentioned by Theocritus
[edit] Modern use
- Pyrros Dimas (b. 1971), modern weightlifter
- 5283 Pyrrhus, an asteroid
[edit] Other uses
- Pyrrhus of Therme (late 6th/early 5th c. BC) earliest epigraphical evidence
- Agathobulus FL Pyrrhus, a freedman whose name occurs in an inscription found at Pesaro
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