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 ii. 45, ix. 34;
Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 9; Justin xviii. 1, xxvi. 2, xxviii. 1).
See Thirlwall, History of Greece, vol. viii.;
Droysen, Hellenismus; B. Niese, Gesch. d. griech. u.
maked. Staaten; J. Beloch, Griech. Gesch. vol. iii.
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