Pyrrhias
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Ancient Greece
- Pyrrhias of AetoliaPyrrhias of AetoliaPyrrhias was an Aetolian general, who was sent by his countrymen during the Social War , to take the command in Elis. Here he took advantage of the absence of Philip V of Macedon, and the incapacity of Eperatus the Achaean strategos, to make frequent incursions into the Achaean territories...
, general, late 3rd century BC. - Pyrrhias, Aetolian winner in stadion race, Olympics 200 BC
- Pyrrhias, a slave character in the comedy DyskolosDyskolosDyskolos is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, or of the whole New Comedy, that has survived in all but complete form. It was first presented at the Lenaian festival in 317-16 BC, where it won Menander first prize...
by MenanderMenanderMenander , Greek dramatist, the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy, was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso... - Pyrrhias, a ferryman of IthacaIthacaIthaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia and...
in Plutarch's MoraliaMoraliaThe Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also fascinating timeless observations in their own right...
Zoology
- Benthonellania pyrrhiasBenthonellania pyrrhiasBenthonellania pyrrhias is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae....
of RissoidaeRissoidaeRissoidae is a large family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.-Distribution and habitat:...
(Gastropoda) - Nystiella pyrrhias of Epitoniidae (Wentletrap)
- Iophanus pyrrhias of IophanusIophanusIophanus is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae....
,Lycaenidae (butterfly) - Augochlora pyrrhias of HalictidaeHalictidaeHalictidae is a cosmopolitan family of the order Hymenoptera consisting of small to midsize bees which are usually dark-colored and often metallic in appearance...
(Hymenoptera)