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Pyrrhus: Forged by Hephaestus' Iron

In addition to creating a seperate timeline abour Rhodri Mawr & his revival of the brythonic kingdoms I thought I'd do somehting else as well.

I have always been interested in Greek history & of the dissolution of Alexander's empire and what could have been.
Now as far as I can discern there are no threads about Pyrrhus of Epirus, he of 'Pyrrhic Victory fame.

Now what if at Asculum Pyrrhus had won but with much fewer losses, could the term 'Pyrrhic Victory' have become something more potent, a symbol of defeating the odds with so few?

I want to create a timeline in which he does just that and also sets about re-creating Alexander The Great's empire but also 'bettering' it in his own image. Conquering what Alexander had yet to conquer.


Any help and advice?How can this be achieved?

I know certain things would by butterflied away i.e. The Byzantines in their roman form. Christianity. Islam. And a lot more.
 
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Ok HUGE apology to the greek enthusiasts out there,
I called Ares MARS by accident and I do apolgize, I had been reading about Atilla The Hun & the sword of Mars and it got stuck in my head.

SORRY!
 
Anyone?

I want to create a Epris empire with a roman client state and eventually a different Byzantine empire without Roman influence.

Also.. a surviving Seleucid state with more Persian influences.
A possible Arabian empire of the Greeks?
 
Hmmm.
Well, as much as I love my psuedo-hellenic states (And I do! Look at my 'Hounds of Ares' Timeline!) the Arche Seleukia is a difficult one. Seleucus took WAAY too much land...and it would take a small miracle for the behemoth to survive to the middle ages, let alone the modern day. Epirus, however, is manageable to an extent. If Asculum went well, Pyrrhus would likely be able to prop up a client 'Italic Federation' under the Samnites or Etruscans (Sabines?) in Italy after beating the Romans, and would probably annex Sicily and Magna Graecia outright. He'd likely next try to become hegemon of Greece and Macedon, deposing the Antigonids and Hellenic League. Then he'd probably be able to march on Pergamon and Asia Minor. That, however, is as far as I'd bet he'd get. The Ptolemies had a vice grip on the near east, and the Seleucids were still around, I don't see a Pyrrhic empire the size of the Alexandrian one, despite what he might have believed.

A Ptolmaic expansion into Arabia, however, is more than viable. And I condone it ;)

Hope this helps!
 
I can see the Romans surving in some form tbh, with their tenacity and cunning, possibly turning the Greeks against their Italic cohorts or merging them all into client states using them to expand and further their military ambitions and technologies.

Maybe not the Seleucids surviving as the entity they were but perhaps becoming more Syria & Babylon based.

The Ptolemaics are stalwart and stubborn and will keep up their hegemony of Egypt and expansion into Arabia seems logical if only to stop possible Seleucid expansion into the peninsula.

And of Carthage. A radically different state, a radically different future especially with a more empire building Hannibal using the 'merchant empire' they crafted and transforming it into a real empire.
 
I can see the Romans surviving in some form tbh, with their tenacity and cunning, possibly turning the Greeks against their Italic cohorts or merging them all into client states using them to expand and further their military ambitions and technologies.
If Rome is Defeated at this time, it would be possible for some other Latinate City to rise to control the Latin Area.

I would see an Epirusian Empire covering the northern Ottoman territory, remembre the Greek cities on the North shore of the Black sea are still viable at this time.
 
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