Volume 1
Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto.
- Pausânias
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Pausanias' Description of Greece / translated into English with notes and index by Arthur Richard Shilleto. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![City his own name, wliich it now has. There is also to this day a temple of Andromache, who accompanied him, inthe city. But Pielns remained at home in Epirus, and it was to him and not to Molossus that Pyrrhus the son of ..^acides 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 eich, and remained loyal to that agreement; and afterwards Alex- ander the son of Neoptolemus died in Lucania, and Olym- pias returned to Epirus from fear of Antipater, and yEacides, the son of Arybbas, in all respects remained loyal to Olympias, and even joined her in fighting against Aridaeus and the Macedonians, though the people of Epirus were unwilling to enter into it. But as Olympias, when she conquered, had acted infamously in connection with the death of Aridteus, and far more so to the Macedonians, and consequently was thought afterwards to have only met with her deserts fi-om Cassander, the Epirotes would not receive Milacides for a time owing to their hostility against Olympias; and when he obtained pardon from them some time after Ca.ssander again prevented his return to Epirus. And a battle being fought between Philip (the brother of Cassander) and icides at Q]]nid£B, ^acides was woundcd and died no long time after. And the people of Epirus made Alcetas king, the son of Arybbas and elder brother of .^acides, a man on previous occasions of ungovernable temper, and for that very reason banished by his father. And now on his arrival he immediately so madly raged against the people of Epiru.s, that they rose up against him by night and killed him and his sons. And when they had killed him they brought back from exile Pyrrhus the son of JE icides. And immediately on his arrival Cassander marched against him, as being young and not firmly estab- lished in the sovereignty. But Pyrrhus, on the invasion of the Macedonians, went to Egypt to Ptolemy the son of Lagus ; and Ptolemy gave him as wife the uterine sister of his own children, and restored him with a force of Egyp- tians. And Pyrrhus, on becoming king, attacked the Corcyraeans first of the Greeks, seeing that the island of Corcyra lay opposite to his own territory, and not wi.shing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24879587_0001_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
