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A Pyrrhic victory (pronounced /ˈpɪrɪk/ ) is a victory with devastating cost to the victor. The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in def...
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King Pyrrhus of Epirus (318-272) ... Ptolemy supplied Pyrrhus with a fleet and army, which Pyrrhus took with him back to Epirus. Pyrrhus' second cousin, Neoptolemus, had been reigning in Epirus since Pyrrhus was deposed.
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King Pyrrhus of Epirus fought the Romans winning a victory to which his name was lent -- the Pyrrhic victory. ... Definition: In 281 B.C., King Pyrrhus of Epirus (c. 318 - 272) landed on the southern Italian shore with 20 elephants and 25,000-30,000 men to defend his fellow Greek speakers (in Tarentum of Magna Graecia)
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Pyrrhus of Epirus (See also last image) ... Pyrrhus abandoned the campaign in Italy and returned to Epirus. Attacking King Antigonus II Gonatas he won an easy victory and seized the Macedonian throne. ... King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Arta, Greece...
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Periphery: Epirus ... King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Bronze Statue, Arta, Greece ... See More Harry Gouvas Photos...
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Pyrrhus (319/318-272): king of Epirus (306-302 and 297-272) and Macedonia (288-284 and 273-272), well-known for his war against the Romans. ... Meanwhile, Pyrrhus' wife Antigone had died, and the king of Epirus remarried to three other women. His first bride was a Greek lady named Lanassa, and her dowry consisted of the...
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Pyrrhus by Plutarch, part of the Internet Classics Archive ... but when he was twelve years old, bringing him with an army into Epirus, made him king. Pyrrhus in the air of his face had something more of the terrors than of the augustness of kingly power;
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www.dl.ket.org/latin2/historia/republic/pyrrhus.htm
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A battle fought in 280 BC in southern Italy between the Romans and King Pyrrhus of Epirus (319-272 BC), who was supporting the Hellenistic Tarentines against Rome. Pyrrhus won but suffered crippling losses.
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