Molossia
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Molossian land
in the texts
Against Alcibiades
Region named as one of the destinations of the speaker's diplomatic missions.
I have been sent on missions to Thessaly, to Macedonia, to Molossia, to Thesprotia, to Italy, and to Sicily.
Andromache
The land where Thetis decrees Andromache and her child will settle and found a royal line.
And for his captive wife Andromache,–she must dwell in the Molossian land, united in honourable wedlock with Helenus, and with her this babe, the sole survivor as he is of all the line of Aeacus, for from him a succession of prosperous kings of Molossia is to go on unbroken;
In Defence of Euxenippus
The region in Epirus, ruled by Olympias, in which the temple of Dodona stands, and over which she claimed exclusive authority.
These measures brought you the complaints of Olympias, who said in her letters that the country of Molossia, in which the temple stands, belonged to her, and that therefore we had no right to interfere with anything there at all.