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When Gaius Fabricius discovers a plot by Pyrrhus' doctor, Nicias, to poison him; he sends a warning to Pyrrhus. The Greek cities in Sicily ask Pyrrhus for help against the Carthaginians. Pyrrhus agrees. Cineas goes to Rome again, but he is unable to negotiate peace terms. The Roman garrison at Rhegium seizes the town, killing many of its people.
Pyrrhus' ambition and recklessness led to his untimely death at Argos. The Spartans were caught unawares by Pyrrhus' invasion. Areus had taken the majority of the Spartan army with him to Crete, where he was campaigning on behalf of Gortyn at the request of Ptolemaic Egypt. [32] The result was that the settlement was lightly defended.
His treasury depleted by his western campaigns, he planned a new campaign, this time east into Macedonia. When Pyrrhus met with more success than he expected, the expedition turned from a limited raid into a full-scale invasion. After defeating Antigonus Gonatas, the king of Macedonia, at the Battle of the Aous he conquered most of his kingdom ...
A statue of Pyrrhus in Ioannina, Greece. In his Life of Pyrrhus, Plutarch records that Hannibal ranked him as the greatest commander the world had ever seen, [4] though in the Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus, Plutarch writes that Hannibal placed him second after Alexander the Great. This latter account is also given by Appian. [52]
The Roman–Greek wars were a series of armed conflicts between the Roman Republic and several Greek states.. The list includes: The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), which ended with the victory of the Romans and the conquest of Epirote territories in South Italy despite earlier albeit costly victories by king Pyrrhus of Epirus, since regarded as 'Pyrrhic victories' (making the origin of this term).
Map depicting the campaigns of Pyrrhus in southern Italy and Sicily and the location of Epirus in Greece. In 281 BC, at the request of the Greek city of Tarentum, Pyrrhus, the King of the Greek state of Epirus, began the Pyrrhic War taking an army of 25,500 men and 20 elephants to Italy to help fight the Romans. [1]
Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese This page was last edited on 8 September 2024, at 19:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
He came with a large army but had little money left to pay them. Pyrrhus planned a campaign into Macedonia for the next year with 8,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to which he added Gallic mercenaries. [1] The expedition originally planned as a limited raid turned into a full-scale invasion when Pyrrhus met with more success than he expected.