pyrrhus of epirus

Many Pyrrhus related timelines relate to the man's spectacular whirlwind career in Magna Graecia and Hellas proper, but what I want to talk about here is: what if he never got the chance? What if, in the course of his exile during his youth, he never returns to Epirus? Perhaps Ptolemy never...

After doing some research, I found something that could potentially be interesting and seems to contradict the standard that Rome doesn't accept peace until they win. After the battle of Heraklea, from which we get the phase, "Pyrrhic victory", Pyrrhus sent Cineas to offer peace terms, which...

Pyrrhus of Epirus had several chances to take the throne of Macedon, and squandered every last one of them. One particular oppurtunity was in 278 BC, when he could either "help" the Greeks of Sicily against the Carthaginians, or take the throne of Macedon, when he recieved two conflicting...

The famous character Pyrrhus of Epirus, the man who gave us the term "Pyrrhic Victory" through his famous conflicts with Rome, could have been offed very early. His father was Aeacides, king of Epirus, and he had been temporarily dethroned for attempting to provide support to Olympias in her war...

In 317 BC, Cassander had finally defeated and killed Olympias at Pydna, and her brother Aeacides wad deposed for supporting Olympias against Cassander. Aeacides sent the young Pyrrhus of Epirus to Glaukias, king of the Taulantians, where he was raised and restored to the throne in 306 BC. What...

In 301 BC, the future king Pyrrhus of Epirus, was still an officer in the Antigonid army ar the battle of Ipsus. Afterward, he stuck with Demetrius a few years before being sent as a hostage to Egypt, where he would obtain the forces needed to take back his throne. Now what if Pyrrhus had been...

In 278 BCE, Pyrrhus of Epirus received two offers at the same time. One was from the Greek cities of Sicily, asking him to drive out the Carthaginians. The other was from Macedonia, asking him to take the throne. It was kind of like getting mutually exclusive quests in a video game. Pyrrhus...