circa 400-300 BCE
Bronze Æ 10 mm, 1,12 g
Obv: Female head left, wearing sphendone.
Rev: ΠΥΡ.
Filleted goat standing left.
SNG Copenhagen 428.
Pyrrha was a relatively small city on the deep bay of Lesbos. Little is known of the town, though Strabo mentions that the primary site was uninhabited by his time and Pliny states that it was swallowed by the sea, presumably during an earthquake.
Pausanias cites a Lescheos of Pyrrha, who wrote the Iliupersis, which described the sack of Troy. All but ten lines of that work have been lost, though we do have an ancient summary.
The modern site for Pyrrha is known, but few ruins remain.
540 BCE
428 BCE
333 BCE
Memnon of Rhodes uses a Persian fleet to secure Chios, then Antissa, Eresos, Mytilene, and Pyrrha.