Molossus

A son of Pyrrhus, or Neoptolemus, and Andromache, from whom the country of Molossia was believed to have derived its name.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 11.1.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Odes vii, 56.
  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid iii, 297.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.