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The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus

Author : Nicholas Sekunda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472833635
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus written by Nicholas Sekunda and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian allies into a very large army (which included war-elephants), he crossed to Italy in 280 BC, but lost most of his force in a series of costly victories at Heraclea and Asculum, as well as a storm at sea. After a campaign in Sicily against the Carthaginians, he was defeated by the Romans at Beneventum and was forced to withdraw. Undeterred, he fought wars in Macedonia and Greece, the last of which cost him his life. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is the story of one of the most renowned warrior-kings of the post-Alexandrian age, whose costly encounters with Republican Rome have become a byword for victory won at unsustainable cost.

Pyrrhus of Epirus

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 184468282X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus of Epirus written by Jeff Champion and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This military biography chronicles the dramatic life of the Ancient Greek ruler whose name became synonymous with self-defeating victory. One of the most influential rulers of the Hellenistic period, Pyrrhus’s life was marked by profound reversals of fortune. Though he was born into the royal house of Epirus in northwest Greece, Pyrrhus was raised in exile. He nevertheless prospered in the chaotic years following the death of Alexander the Great, taking part in the coups and subterfuges of the Successor kingdoms. He became, at various times, king of Epirus (twice), Macedon (twice) and Sicily, as well as overlord of much of southern Italy. In 281 BC Pyrrhus was invited by the southern Italian states to defend them against the aggressive expansion of Rome. His early victories at Heraclea and Asculum were won at such disastrous cost that he was ultimately forced to retreat. These so-called Pyrrhic victories were the first duels between the developing Roman legions and the hitherto-dominant Hellenistic way of war with its pike phalanxes and elephants. Pyrrhus ultimately failed in Italy and Sicily but went on to further military adventures in Greece, eventually being killed while storming the city of Argos.

The History of Pyrrhus

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhus King of Epirus

Author : Petros Garouphalias
Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus King of Epirus written by Petros Garouphalias and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhus

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhus

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyrrhus is one part of a series of biographies from historians from the mid-1800s John and Jacob Abbott. Excerpt: Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, entered at the very beginning of his life upon the extraordinary series of romantic adventures which so strikingly marked his career...

Pyrrhus. Mark Merlis

Author : Mark Merlis
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000729221X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus. Mark Merlis written by Mark Merlis and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyrrhus is a male stripper in a bar in ancient Greece. But destiny has scheduled him for a career change. For Pyrrhus is the son of Achilles, and the oracle has proclaimed that he will lead the Myrmidons to victory.

A History of the Pyrrhic War

Author : Patrick Alan Kent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351005804
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Pyrrhic War written by Patrick Alan Kent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Pyrrhic War explores the multi-polar nature of a conflict that involved the Romans, peoples of Italy, western Greeks, and Carthaginians during Pyrrhus’ western campaign in the early third century BCE. The war occurred nearly a century before the first historical writings in Rome, resulting in a malleable narrative that emphasized the moral virtues of the Romans, transformed Pyrrhus into a figure that resembled Alexander the Great, disparaged the degeneracy of the Greeks, and demonstrated the malicious intent of the Carthaginians. Kent demonstrates the way events were shaped by later Roman generations to transform the complex geopolitical realities of the Pyrrhic War into a one-dimensional duel between themselves and Pyrrhus that anticipated their rise to greatness. This book analyses the Pyrrhic War through consideration of geopolitical context as well as how later Roman writers remembered the conflict. The focus of the war is taken off Pyrrhus as an individual and shifted towards evaluating the multifaceted interactions of the peoples of Italy and Sicily. A History of the Pyrrhic War is a fundamental resource for academic and learned general readers who have an interest in the interaction of developing imperial powers with their neighbors and how those events shaped the perceptions of later generations. It will be of interest not only to students of Roman history, but also to anyone working on historiography in any period.

History of Pyrrhus

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605208337
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered what we would now call "young adult" literature, this collection, first published between 1848 and 1871, was designed to present a clear, distinct, connected narrative of the lives of the great figures of world history, those people who have been most influential, at least as American author and educator JACOB ABBOTT (1803-1879) saw it from his 19th-century perspective. Wildly popular and republished many times under different collected names, this replica set mimics the 1904 reprint known as the "Makers of History" series. It will delight students of history as well as show the scholar how history telling has changed over the last few centuries. More than 30 other volumes in the series are also available from Cosimo Classics. This volume, dating from 1854, covers Pyrrhus of Epirus (318Bi272 Be, one of the fiercest enemies of ancient Rome, including his wars in Macedon and Italy and his experience at the Battle of Asculum, from which we take the term "Pyrrhic victory."

An Arrow's Flight

Author : Mark Merlis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312242886
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book An Arrow's Flight written by Mark Merlis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tour-de-force, the author of the award-winning "American Studies" tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city.

Isaeus’ On the Estate of Pyrrhus (Oration 3)

Author : Rosalia Hatzilambrou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527526119
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Isaeus’ On the Estate of Pyrrhus (Oration 3) written by Rosalia Hatzilambrou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an edition of the third speech of the fourth-century BCE orator Isaeus. It contains a new Greek text, based on a full collation of the manuscript evidence, an English translation, an extensive introduction, and a detailed commentary on the textual, linguistic, legal, rhetorical, stylistic, and historical issues encountered in the speech. The book demonstrates the high level of oratorical skill possessed by the under-appreciated orator Isaeus, and casts light on some exceedingly complex aspects of Athenian family law and society in the fourth century. It is accessible to readers without knowledge of ancient Greek, and is essential reading for anyone interested in Attic oratory, rhetoric, and Athenian law.

History of Pyrrhus

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Pyrrhus written by Jacob Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhus (Serapis Classics)

Author : Jacob Abbott
Publisher : Serapis Classics
ISBN 13 : 3962559531
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus (Serapis Classics) written by Jacob Abbott and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PYRRHUS, King of Epirus, entered at the very beginning of his life upon the extraordinary series of romantic adventures which so strikingly marked his career. He became an exile and a fugitive from his father's house when he was only two years old, having been suddenly borne away at that period by the attendants of the household, to avoid a most imminent personal danger that threatened him. The circumstances which gave occasion for this extraordinary ereption were as follows: The country of Epirus, as will be seen by the accompanying map, was situated on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, and on the southwestern confines of Macedonia. The kingdom of Epirus was thus very near to, and in some respects dependent upon, the kingdom of Macedon. In fact, the public affairs of the two countries, through the personal relations and connections which subsisted from time to time between the royal families that reigned over them respectively, were often intimately intermingled, so that there could scarcely be any important war, or even any great civil dissension in Macedon, which did not sooner or later draw the king or the people of Epirus to take part in the dispute, either on one side or on the other. And as it sometimes happened that in these questions of Macedonian politics the king and the people of Epirus took opposite sides, the affairs of the great kingdom were often the means of bringing into the smaller one an infinite degree of trouble and confusion...

The History of Pyrrhus, Etc

Author : Jacob ABBOTT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The History of Pyrrhus, Etc written by Jacob ABBOTT and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhus the Epirote. An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [and in Verse].

Author : Frederick William HOWES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhus the Epirote. An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [and in Verse]. written by Frederick William HOWES and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plutarch's Lives: Aristides.-Marcus Cato.-Philopoemen.-T.Q. Flamininus.-Pyrrhus.-Caius Marius

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives: Aristides.-Marcus Cato.-Philopoemen.-T.Q. Flamininus.-Pyrrhus.-Caius Marius written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Circe

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316556335
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Circe written by Madeline Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times Bestseller -- named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, Buzzfeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider.