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Glaukias

fl. 335–302 BCE · 4th century BCE · Also known as Glaucias of the Taulantii

Glaukias was king of the Taulantii, an Illyrian people on the Adriatic coast around Epidamnus, in the late 4th century BCE. He aided Cleitus against Alexander the Great at Pelion in 335 BCE, and later sheltered the infant Pyrrhus of Epirus, refusing to hand him to Cassander and restoring him to the Epirote throne in 306 BCE.

Glaukias
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