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| | Pyrrhus of Epirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Pyrrhus was driven out of Macedonia by Lysimachus, his former ally, in 284 BC. | | | In 272, Cleonymus, a Spartan of royal blood but hated in Sparta, asked Pyrrhus to attack Sparta and place him in power. | | | Meanwhile, he had begun to display despotic behavior towards the Sicilian Greeks, and soon Sicilian opinion became inflamed against him. |
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| | Pyrrhus - Plutarch's Lives |
| | Pyrrhus, entering in with noise and shouting near the Cylarabis, when the Gauls returned the cry, noticed that it did not express courage and assurance, but was the voice of men distressed, and that had their hands full. | | | This fight did not so much exasperate the Macedonians with anger for their loss, or with hatred to Pyrrhus, as it caused esteem, and admiration of his valor, and great discourse of him among those that saw what he did, and were engaged against him in the action. | | | The cause chiefly moving Pyrrhus is said to have had this beginning. |
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| | Pyrrhus - The Fool of Hope |
| | Pyrrhus could not kill him because Pantauchus' friends rescued him when he fell, but the men of Epirus, exulting in the victory of their king, tore apart the Macedonian phalanx, killed many as they ran away, and took 5,000 prisoners. | | | As soon as he had gone, there was a coup, and Pyrrhus lost not only his kingdom but all of his property too. | | | Pyrrhus asked some men whether or not they had made certain remarks about him at a drinking party. |
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| | Pyrrhus of Epirus (2) |
| | Rome claimed to have been founded by refugees from Troy, led by Aeneas; and Pyrrhus claimed to be a descendant of the archenemy of the Trojans. | | | The defeat in Aetolia and the ensuing invasion had been heavy blows for Macedonian prestige. | | | The legionaries attacked the hoplites in the Epirote phalanx, which they found impenetrable. |
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| | Pyrrhus |
| | Antigonus Gonatas regained control of Macedonia and conveyed an army by sea to Corinth against Pyrrhus, whose son Ptolemy was killed in an ambush by the forces of King Areus of Sparta. | | | Ptolemy befriended Pyrrhus and in 297 restored him to his kingdom. | | | At first Pyrrhus reigned with a kinsman, Neoptolemus, but soon he had his colleague assassinated. |
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| | PYRRHUS |
| | Pyrrhus returned to Epirus, invaded Macedonia and made an unsuccessful attack on Sparta. | | | Pyrrhus was king of the Hellenistic kingdom of Epirus whose costly military successes against Macedonia and Rome gave rise to the phrase' Pyrrhic victory'. | | | His remark 'Another such victory and I shall be ruined' gave name to the term 'Pyrrhic victory' for a victory obtained at to great a cost. |
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| | Pyrrhus, Molossian king of Epirus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In the same year Pyrrhus’ peace proposals were rejected by the Romans. | | | He then went to S Italy with a large force to aid the Tarentines and defeated (280) the Romans at Heraclea. | | | He removed (295) Neoptolemus from the throne, but before his kingdom was consolidated he went to war with Demetrius (291–286); Pyrrhus obtained half of Macedonia and Thessaly but was driven back (c.286) by Lysimachus. |
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| | Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy |
| | He briefly held Macedonia (294-288), before being deposed by Pyrrhus and Lysimachus, and then was captured by Seleucus I in 285 -- the effective end of his Kingship. | | | Antigonus is briefly ejected by Pyrrhus again (273-272), but then returns to establish his dynasty for the rest of the independent history of Macedonia. | | | Antigonus's son, Demetrius I Poliorcetes (Poliorkêtés, "Sieger of Cities," though his greatest siege, of Rhodes, was a failure), who had also been created King by Antigonus, survived the battle and continued to control much of Greece and the Aegean. |
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