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Pyrrhus
(1,260 words)

(Πύρρος/Pýrr(h)os).

[German version]

[1] Son of Achilles and Deidamia

See Neoptolemus [1]

[German version]

[2] Bronze sculptor from Athens, c. 430 BC

Bronze sculptor from Athens. A base bearing P.' signature of a larger than life-size statue on the Athenian Acropolis is dated to c. 430-420 BC and connected with a record of an Athena Hygieia constructed by order of Pericles …

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Neudecker, Richard (Rome) and Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich), “Pyrrhus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1015710>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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