pyrrhus

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 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...

~~~~~~~ The Tragi-Comedic Life of Pyrrhos ~~~~~~~ ... Part 1: Prologue The Pyrrhic Kingdom of Italy is not only the most influential but also the most interesting of the Diadochi states. Indeed, their classification of 'Diadochi' is literally stretching the definition because Megas Alexandros...

Apparently the Romans are the only part of history I'm interested in writing about. Anyway, I still plan on pursuing the Annals of Aelius TL for 150 more years, but I may start a secondary/minor TL just so I have something else to do and I don't burn out from reading Tacitus and Suetonius over...

Referencing this section of Pyrrhus' wiki page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus#Ruler_of_Sicily What if Carthage, in exchange for an alliance, were to agree with the terms of abandoning Sicily? - Complete with Pyrrhus maintaining talks long enough. What impact would that have...