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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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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.
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Pyrrhus of Epirus (See also last image) ... Pyrrhus wrote Memoirs and several books on art of war. ... King Pyrrhus of Epirus, Arta, Greece...
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Although the chapters are organized around the main geographical locales of Pyrrhus' career, there are lengthy explanatory digressions on the previous history of Epirus, the wars of Alexander's Successors, the nature of Hellenistic kingship and governance, the history of Magna Graecia, the use of war elephants,
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Pyrrhus married Ptolemy I's stepdaughter Antigone and in 297 BC restored his kingdom of Epirus. Next he went to war against his former ally Demetrius. By 286 BC he had deposed his former brother-in-law and took control over the kingdom of Macedon.
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Next, he went to war against his former ally, now Demetrius I Poliorcetes of Macedonia. Pyrrhus took Thessaly and the western half of Macedonia and relieved Athens from Demetrius' siege, but was driven back into Epirus by Lysimachus (who had supplanted Demetrius) in 284.
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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) against ... While Pyrrhus won the first two battles, he lost a large number of his men (and ultimately, the war).
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Ptolemy supplied Pyrrhus with a fleet and army, which Pyrrhus took with him back to Epirus. Pyrrhus' second cousin, Neoptolemus, ... Pyrrhus and Demetrius were not good neighbours and were soon at war (291). Pyrrhus defeated Pantauchus, one of Demetrius' generals in Aetolia, and then invaded Macedonia in search of plunder.
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A Pyrrhic victory is a victory with devastating cost to the victor.-Origin:The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War...
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