CHAONES The Chaones according to Strabo were once the most powerful and warlike people of Epirus until the Molossians, in their turn, acquired a preponderating ascendancy over the other clans of tha… more →
History of Epiruswrote 2 years ago: CHAONES The Chaones according to Strabo were once the most powerful and warlike people of Epirus un … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Pyrrhus of Epirus was born in 318 BC. He was son of the Molossian king, Aeacides and Phthia, a Thess … more →
wrote 2 years ago: but what language did the Epirotes speak?The answer to this question became apparent, when D. Evange … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Known in the ‘Iliad’ only for the oracle of Dodona, and to Herodotus for the oracle of t … more →
wrote 2 years ago: .From Inscription to Onomasticon: the Bouthrotos Manumission Texts and LGPN (Elaine Matthews, 26 Nov … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Epirus, though mostly held by people of Grecian speech and lineage, had an intermixture of those cal … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Dodona, the sanctuary of Zeus in Epirus, boasted of bring the oldest oracle. The Iliad has Achilles … more →
wrote 3 years ago: “Zeus Archon, Dodonean, Pelasgian, who dwells afar, ruling on rough wintered Dodona, surrounde … more →