Lanassa (wife of Pyrrhus)

Lanassa was a daughter of King Agathocles of Syracuse, probably by his second wife Alkia. 295 BC Agathocles tied to kinship with the Molosserkönig Pyrrhus, by giving this Lanassa to wife. The Syracusan king led his daughter personally with his warships to her groom to Epirus and conquered on the way the city of Croton. This marriage brought Pyrrhus the island of Corcyra as a dowry. From the marriage of the couple went 294 or 293 BC, a son named Alexandros forth. Since Lanassa but did not want to accept that Pyrrhus rose in polygamy more wives, she left him 291 BC and went to Corcyra. This island stellend as dowry in view, they courted the then dominant Demetrius I Macedon Poliorketes as a new husband. The sought-after Diadoche came, walked one - but some researchers doubted - Marriage with a Lanassa and let his new acquisition Corcyra to secure occupy militarily. As a former husband of Lanassa Pyrrhus was after the death of Agathocles (289 BC) make hereditary claims on Sicily contends that the basis of which the Syracusans themselves in 279 BC asked him for assistance against the Carthaginians.