Definition of Epeiras

1. epeira [n] - See also: epeira

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epeiras

epaulet
epaulets
epaulette
epauletted
epaulettes
epauliere
epaxial
epazote
epazotes
epee
epeeist
epeeists
epeen
epees
epeira
epeiras (current term)
epeiric
epeirid
epeirids
epeirogenesis
epeirogenic
epeirogenically
epeirogenies
epeirogeny
epen
epencephala
epencephalic
epencephalon
ependyma
ependymal

Literary usage of Epeiras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1880)
"... and Roxana, dreading her influence, fled with her son Alexander into epeiras, where Olympias had lived for a long time. At the instigation of Olympias, ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"After experiencing many vicissitudes of fortune in his youth, he became sole king of epeiras in 295 в. с, ; and, in the following year, increased his ..."

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William George Smith (1849)
"Pyrrhus advanced to meet him ; but as the two armies took different roads, Demetrius entered epeiras and Pyrrhus Aetolia almost at the same time. ..."

4. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1920)
"On the death of Antipater in 819, Roxana fled with her son to epeiras, where he was betrothed to ..."

5. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with by William Smith (1855)
"Pindus forms the boundary between Thessaly and epeiras. The latter country contains no inclosed plain like that of Thessaly, but is covered by ..."

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