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Pyrrhus of Epirus | Alexander the Great's Unlucky Cousin Who Could Have Conquered Rome DOCUMENTARY
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2024
- This is episode 2 from Chapter 4 of our series! It deals with the Pyrrhic War, where Pyrrhus of Epirus, landed in Italy to fight both the Romans and Carthaginians.
The Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans.
A skilled commander, with a strong army fortified by war elephants (which the Romans were not experienced in facing), Pyrrhus enjoyed initial success against the Roman legions, but suffered heavy losses even in these victories. Plutarch wrote that Pyrrhus said after the second battle of the war, "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined." He could not call up more men from home and his allies in Italy were becoming indifferent. The Romans, by contrast, had a very large pool of military manpower and could replenish their legions even if their forces were depleted in many battles. This has led to the expression "Pyrrhic victory", a term for a victory that inflicts losses the victor cannot afford in the long term.
Worn down by the battles against Rome, Pyrrhus moved his army to Sicily to war against the Carthaginians instead. After several years of campaigning there (278-275 BC), he returned to Italy in 275 BC, where the last battle of the war was fought, ending in Roman victory. Following this, Pyrrhus returned to Epirus, ending the war. Three years later, in 272 BC, the Romans captured Tarentum.
The Pyrrhic War was the first time that Rome confronted the professional mercenary armies of the Hellenistic states of the eastern Mediterranean. Rome's victory drew the attention of these states to the emerging power of Rome. Ptolemy II, the king of Egypt, established diplomatic relations with Rome. After the war, Rome asserted its hegemony over southern Italy.
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Correct pronunciation of Epirus is actually Ep-ai-rus!
Great video. But the Greek people pronounce it "Ípeiros"
You shouldnt lie either, pyrros wasnt greek but albanian
Ipiros
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Yo I just found this channel its really good! Will you guys ever cover the Rasenna(Etruscans)? They are an underrated civilization extremely interesting.
We touch on them very briefly in our Birth of Rome video, but we will be doing deeper dives on all kinds of civilizations including the Etruscans once we rotate in our new series
Keep at it!!
I find his end kind of comical
Looks like Pyrrhus was a great at winning battles, but he was lousy at strategy.
Fitting end that he died because he didnt look up.
Always embroiled in action and too busy to look at the bigger picture
10:05 ... Real Feminist killed a whole ass Warrior King
Alexander the Great, Pyrrhus, Justinian, Constantin, Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeg and all the biggest leader of Europe till Napoleon all came from ourdays Albanian. Albanians are spread in more than 8 countries around the territory they occupied for 8000-9000 years even the name Ballkan is incorrect and you can see it in the old maps and authors it was called the Illirian peninsula, but after the orthodox priests manipulations is difficult for someone who is not Albanian to put the pieces together.
Leibnitz said himself “if you want to know history before Christ you have to study Albanian language”, and the moderns haters think they are smarter that all those mighty persons who spoke up about the facts and reality of history.
The oldest habited place of Europe is confirmed to be Lin, Pogradec in Albania by Bern University.
Max Planck Institut, Germany, confirmed also in very recent study with 80 excepts that Albanian is the oldest language of Europe and I’m telling you is the mother language of all so called indo-Europeans language and is related ti all the oldest languages that are dead now: Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew , Egyptian Copte, Sumerian, Etruscan and so on. The hypothetical indo-European language of the Aryas is not hypothetical since it has been transmitted orally for thousands and thousands of years, written in différents alphabets and is still alive and spoken is his initial form with monosyllabic words that doesn’t need mythology or whatever external support to be explained but contain the meaning within the word itself. All ancients scriptures can be explained with phonetic monosyllabic Albanian words.
We never needed to be a nation since this is a modern concept and a real nation is one population first, sharing one language, une culture with specificities from one region to another and have commun costumes and symboles.
The Greeks (that are a Semitic-Egyptian tribe who tried to appropriate all they could from the Pellazgo-Illirico-Thracians ) did harm to the intime humanity with their manipulation and lies and now the Serbs are trying to doing the same thing even though they are the last who came to Europe, they want to appropriate a culture that they don’t even understand to start with, just like Greeks who invented crazy mythological stories ti explain something they can’t grab and just don’t gets it.
The truth is revealing itself and no lies can affect it because it has remain pristine (like the name Prishtine hahaha they are thousands of concordances with moderns languages and Albanian in word that people use it without know it what it is and where it came from like Crisis=Kris in Albanian, RE-invent that is the word new in Albanian and used in every Latin language and the list is very very long) for the one who are capable to get to its level and not trying to manipulate the truth to serve their interests.
Cheers to all the children of the light, the truth seekers , the others, the children of the darkness, stay in the dark because you belong to darkness and the word doesn’t need that.
The pride of Albanian with triumph always and this has been the case forever and that’s why others want to disclaim us but I don’t mind because it only gives us strength to shine brighter for the future generation and the heritage of humanity, not just for us.
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Propaganda bro
Alexander is 🇬🇷
Try again. And say the truth this time. Aleksander and none of European heros were Greek. Sorry not sorry
@@sokoli3253 try again bro alexander is really greek
@@sokoli3253 Macedonian is Dorian greek
Pirua i epirit in king albanian ilirian aleksander in legjendari ilirjan albanian🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱
Epirus was illyrian and illirians are todays albanians lol
There is no evidence that Albanians are Yllirians. It's only an unlikely theory. Sorry to wake you up but Πύρρος was Greek and Ήπειρος too.
The main source for what we know about Pyrrhus comes from his biography in a chapter of Plutarch’s book Lives of noble Greeks and Romans.
In this book, Plutarch has biographies and pairs Greeks with Romans that had similar lives. In the case of the Greek king Pyrrhus, he finds a parallel life with that of the Roman Gaius Marius. This alone should settle that the Epirote king Pyrrhus was Greek.
His family boasted that came from the line of Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, the great hero of the Greeks in the Iliad. Although Epirotes lived pretty much like their beighbouring barbarians,or as Plutarch said “lapsed into barbarism”, after king Tharrypas they followed Greek customs and letters. Tharrypas’ great grandson Aecides married Pthia, a Thessalian lady and had a son, king Pyrrhus. So, he was a Greek not only legally, in a patrilinear fashion, but also from his mother too.
Epirotes were a Greek tribe. Illyrians were a neighboring yet completely different barbarian tribe. Illyrians are mentioned only as foreign parties in Plutarch’s biography of Pyrrhus. He mentions the term “Illyria/Illyrians” only 2 times in relation with Epirus and Pyrrhus. First he mentions how kid Pyrrhus was sent to “king Glaucias of the Illyrians” to avoid assasination, until he was 12 and he was “conducted back into Epeirus”, a distinct land south of Illyria, to become a king. The second and last time the term “Illyria/Illyrians” is mentioned in the whole biography is again when referring to a foreign king: “Bardyllis the Illyrian’s daughter” when he mentions an Illyrian lady Pyrrhus got after his first wife, a Greek lady named Antigone, died.
So, Pyrrhus’ only relations with Illyrians is that he lived for a while in Illyria exiled from Epirus and later on he married an Illyrian lady, but this wasn’t anything special as he took several wives after the death of his first, Antigone, a Greek. For example he also married a Paeonian princess and the daughter of the tyrant of Syracuse, that is a second Greek wife. Having a foreign girlfriend/wife (especially when you have a lot of them like Pyrrhus) doesn’t change your ethnic background nor living a few years abroad as a kid does. For example Philip II married a bunch of wives, from Epirus, Thessaly, etc and he also lived a few years in Thebes. This doesn’t make him Epirotan, Thessalian or Theban. Same goes for Pyrrhus. He isn’t mentioned as Illyrian in any of the ancient sources be it Plutarch, or Appian. A later source, Justin, repeats how as a kid he was “carried off into Illyricum”, showing how he was carried to a foreign country, fleeing from the usurper king of Epirus. Justin also writes that the family of Pyrrhus descended from the Greek hero, Achilleus (Justin 17.3).
When describing Pyrrhus’ battles, Plutarch mentions Pyrrhus side as “the Greeks”:
"The Romans, however, anxious to anticipate the coming of the forces which Pyrrhus had decided to await, attempted the passage, their infantry crossing the river by a ford and their cavalry dashing through the water at many points so that the Greeks on guard fearing that they would be surrounded, withdrew. When Pyrrhus saw this, he was greatly disturbed."
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"Accordingly, as the spoils were carried along the ranks and displayed there was joy and shouting among the Romans, and among the Greeks consternation and dejection, until Pyrrhus, learning what was the matter, rode along his line."
So, from the major source
about his life we know he was Greek, the equivalent of Gaius Marius, and that the Epirotes were not Illyrians. This is made pretty clear by the rest of the ancient sources mentioning Pyrrhus too.
Albanians have nothing to do with ancient Illyrians, just bcs they occupied that land.
Can you name a single source that claim that epirus was illyrian?????
Lol 😂 good joke … jealous albo alert 🚨 😂
Epirus is and Phyrro is albanian thats it
Back then there was no country called grease only Macedonia Macedonians were not Greek tell the true history
source: 20th century yugoslavian propaganda
Wrong. Romans considered today's Greece as Greece. The Hellenic people considered each other as Hellenic people. Instead your ancestors were still in Ukraine.
They were Hellenic (Greek) City states, just bcs they were not together as one power, DOSENT mean they are not Greeks.. they all have same blood, today's north Macedonia is a fake Slavic country which they have nothing related to ancient macedonians.
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