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Ancient Greece

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Pyrrhias of Aetolia Pyrrhias ( el, ) was an Aetolian general, who was sent by his countrymen during the Social War (220–217 BC), 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 st ...
, general, late 3rd century BC. *Pyrrhias, Aetolian winner in stadion race,
Ancient Olympic Games The ancient Olympic Games (Ὀλυμπιακοὶ ἀγῶνες; la, Olympia, neuter plural: "the Olympics") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. ...
(200 BC) *Pyrrhias, a slave character in the comedy ''
Dyskolos ''Dyskolos'' ( el, , , translated as ''The Grouch'', ''The Misanthrope'', ''The Curmudgeon'', ''The Bad-tempered Man'' or ''Old Cantankerous'') is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander, the only one of his plays, and of the whole New Comedy, tha ...
'' by Menander *Pyrrhias, a ferryman of Ithaca in Plutarch's '' Moralia''


Zoology

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Benthonellania pyrrhias ''Benthonellania pyrrhias'' is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae Rissoidae is a large family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks ...
'' of Rissoidae (Gastropoda) *'' Nystiella pyrrhias'' of
Epitoniidae Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.Gofas, S. (2010). Epitoniidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollu ...
(Wentletrap) *''
Iophanus pyrrhias ''Iophanus'' is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae described by Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt in 1920. The single species of this genus, ''Iophanus pyrrhias'', the Guatemalan copper, was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert ...
'' of Iophanus, Lycaenidae (butterfly) *''
Augochlora pyrrhias ''Augochlora'' is a genus of sweat bee with over 100 species found across the Nearctic and Neotropic zones. There are at least 110 described species in ''Augochlora''.Halictidae (Hymenoptera) {{disambig, hndis