Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I. — John Shaqi
Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175
Greece -- Antiquities; Greece -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
sons and brothers, and in consequence of what had happened they fled
for refuge to Ptolemy. And these fugitives to the court of Seleucus
were accompanied by Alexander also, the son of Lysimachus by his wife
Odrysiades. And they, having got to Babylon, besought Seleucus to go
to war with Lysimachus; and Philetærus at the same time, who had had
all the money of Lysimachus entrusted to him, indignant at the death
of Agathocles and thinking the conduct of Arsinoe suspicious, occupied
Pergamum beyond the river Caicus, and sent an envoy and offered himself
and his money to Seleucus. And Lysimachus, learning all this, crossed
into Asia Minor forthwith, and himself began the war, and encountering
Seleucus was badly beaten and himself killed. And Alexander, who
was his son by his wife Odrysiades, after much entreaty to Lysandra
recovered his corpse, and subsequently conveyed it to the Chersonese
and buried it there, where even now his tomb is to be seen, between the
village Cardia and Pactye. Such was the fate of Lysimachus.
CHAPTER XI.
The Athenians also have a statue of Pyrrhus. This Pyrrhus was only
related to Alexander by ancestry. For Pyrrhus was the son of Æacides
the son of Arybbas, whereas Alexander was the son of Olympias the
daughter of Neoptolemus. Now, Neoptolemus and Arybbas had the same
father, Alcetas the son of Tharypus. And from Tharypus to Pyrrhus,
the son of Achilles, are fifteen generations. For he first, after the
capture of Ilium, neglected, returning home to Thessaly, and removed to
Epirus and dwelt there in accordance with the oracles of Helenus. And
he had no son by Hermione, but by Andromache he had Molossus and Pielus
and the youngest Pergamus. And Helenus also had a son Cestrinus by
Andromache, whom he married after the death of Pyrrhus at Delphi. And
when Helenus died having handed over the kingdom to Molossus the son
of Pyrrhus, Cestrinus with the Epirotes who volunteered to go with him
occupied the region across the river Thyamis, and Pergamus, crossing
into Asia Minor, killed Arius the king of Teuthrania in single combat
for the sovereignty of the country, and gave the city his own name,
which it now has. There is also to this day a temple of Andromache, who
accompanied him, in the city. But Pielus remained at home in Epirus,
and it was to him and not to Molossus that Pyrrhus the son of Æacides
and his fathers traced up their ancestry. Now up to the days of Alcetas
the son of Tharypus Epirus was under one king; but the sons of Alcetas
after some quarrelling changed the government to an equal share for
each, and remained loyal to that agreement; and afterwards Alexander
the son of Neoptolemus died in Lucania, and Olympias returned to
Epirus from fear of Antipater, and Æacides, the son of Arybbas, in all
respects remained loyal to Olympias, and even joined her in fighting
against Aridæus and the Macedonians, though the people of Epirus were
unwilling to enter into it. But as Olympias, when she conquered, had
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