List of kings of Epirus
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This list of kings of Epirus
below includes all kings and queens, along with princes and princesses until the last representative of the royal Aeacid dynasty whereupon a democracy was established. In 168 BC
Epirus became the Roman province
of Epirus Vetus. The dates in brackets indicate the reigning period if known.
Epirus
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:-Geographical:* Epirus - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania...
below includes all kings and queens, along with princes and princesses until the last representative of the royal Aeacid dynasty whereupon a democracy was established. In 168 BC
168 BC
Year 168 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macedonicus and Crassus...
Epirus became the Roman province
Roman province
In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and, until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of Italy...
of Epirus Vetus. The dates in brackets indicate the reigning period if known.
- AdmetusAdmetus of EpirusFor other persons with the same name, see Admetus Admetus was a king of the Molossians at the time that Themistocles was the effective ruler of Athens...
(before 470-430 BC) - TharypusTharrhypasTharrhypas was a king of the Molossians. He is mentioned by Thucydides as a minor in 429 BC. He was the father of Alcetas, and is said to have been the first to introduce Hellenic civilization among his subjects.-References:...
(430- 392 BC392 BCYear 392 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Capitolinus...
) - Alcetas I (390, 385 - 370 BC370 BCYear 370 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Capitolinus, Medullinus, Praetextatus, Cornelius, Volusus and Poplicola...
) - Neoptolemos I (370 - 357 BC357 BCYear 357 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rutilus and Imperiosus...
) - Troas (Aeacide), nobility
- Arybbas (373 BC373 BCYear 373 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Third year without Tribunate or Consulship...
- 343 BC343 BCYear 343 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Arvina...
, 330 BC330 BCYear 330 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Venno...
-319 BC319 BCYear 319 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Cerretanus...
) - Alexander IAlexander I of EpirusAlexander I of Epirus , also known as Alexander Molossus , was a king of Epirus of the Aeacid dynasty. As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, he was an uncle of Alexander the Great...
(342-331/330 BC) - Ptolemy I of Epirus, nobility
- Helenos (Aeacide), nobility
- Aeacides (319-317 BC)
- Deidamia I of EpirusDeidamia I of EpirusDeidamia was daughter of Aeacides, king of Epirus and his wife Phthia, and sister of Pyrrhus. While yet a girl she was betrothed by her father to Alexander IV, the son of Roxana and Alexander the Great, and having accompanied that prince and Olympias into Macedonia, was besieged in Pydna together...
, daughter of Aeacides - Neoptolemos I (317-313 BC) second reign
- Alcetas II (313 BC313 BCYear 313 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Brutus...
– 306 ВС) - Pyrrhus IPyrrhusPyrrhus or Pyrrhos or Pyrros may refer to the following figures from Greek history and mythology:* Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, son of Achilles* Pyrrhus of Epirus , famous king, to whom the term Pyrrhic victory alludes...
( 307 - 302 BC302 BCYear 302 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Denter and Paullus...
) - Neoptolemos II (302-297 ВС)
- Kadmeia (Aeacide), nobility
- Pyrrhus I (297 - 272 BC272 BCYear 272 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Maximus...
) second reign - Alexander IIAlexander II of EpirusAlexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.-Reign:He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon...
(272-255 ВС) - Olympias II of EpirusOlympias II of EpirusOlympias was daughter of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus from his first wife Antigone. She was the wife of her own paternal half-brother Alexander II...
regent after Alexander II, her husband died - Pyrrhus II (255- 237 ВС) brother to Ptolemy
- PtolemyPtolemy of EpirusPtolemy ; 237 BC-died 234 ВС), king of Epirus, was the second son of Alexander II, king of Epirus, and Olympias, grandson of the great Pyrrhus and brother of Phthia of Macedon. He was named in honor of his late uncle Ptolemy, a late brother of his parents...
(237- 234 ВС) brother to Pyrrhus - Pyrrhus III
- Nereis (Aeacide), nobility
- Deidamia (233 BC233 BCYear 233 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Verrucosus and Matho...
), nobility, ruled very briefly- End of the monarchy, see Epirote League