ALEXANDER II
ALEXANDER II., king of Epirus, succeeded his father Pyrrhus, 272 B.C. He
attacked Antigonus Gonatas and conquered the greater part of Macedonia, but was
in turn driven out of both Epirus and Macedonia by Demetrius the son of
Antigonus. He subsequently recovered his kingdom by the aid of the Acarnanians
and Aetolians. He died about 260.
(Polybius 11. 45, ix. 34; Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 9; Justin xviii. I, xxvi.
2, xxviii.'). See Thirlwall, History of Greece, vol. viii.; Droysen,
Hellnismus; B. Niese, Gesch. d. griech. U. 'naked. Stasten; J.
Beloch, Griech. Gesch. vol. iii.
