Pyrrhus of Epirus

>>2597914
Hannibal barca said Alexander the great and Pyrrhus of Epirus are the greatest generals in history

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>>2597914
you could say he had pyrrhic success at best :3

>>2599331
He only said that to piss off Scipio who was at the same table.

Pyrrhus literally failed in Italia and his name literally defines a victory so bad it may as well be a loss.

>>2599342
It's Pyrrhic victory you amerilard

>>2600660
They were still good victories. It was only the size of his forces that made his losses crippling.

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>>2597914
This was exactly 8yo me's thought process when learning about Pyrrhus in school

>>2600712
>They were still good victories
You know, except for the part where he got chased out of Italy and died.

>>2597914
siege of sparta

>>2600757
>learning about Pyrrhus in school

super jealous desu

>>2601208
You would have done so much better anon. Too bad you weren't there to help him with your awesomeness.

>While Pyrrhus had been campaigning against the Carthaginians, the Romans had rebuilt their army by calling up thousands of fresh recruits. When Pyrrhus returned from Sicily, he found himself vastly outnumbered against a superior Roman army under Manius Curius Dentatus. After the inconclusive Battle of Beneventum in 275 BC, Pyrrhus decided to end his campaign in Italy and return to Epirus which resulted in the loss of essentially all the gains he had made in Italy. However, the city of Tarentum remained under the dominion of the Epirotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus#Retreat_from_Italy

>>2600757
>mfw I thought the romans first encountered elephans when facing Hannibal
that image is ruined now

>>2600660
He meant it, had he won though, he would have put himself only before Alexander, instead of before Epirus, thus making Scipio happy that he had slain the main second only to Alexander.

>>2597914
>killed by a grandma
>with a brick
>while parading

>>2604114
It's fucked up though. There can be no 'but' after 'victory'. Both Pyrrhus and Hannibal failed. The former just gave up and the latter was brought to his knees by a kid half his age.

By any metric, Scipio was the superior general. And Pyrrhus was lucky he didn't run into the Romans after they had revised their tactics that let them absolutely steamroll the Hellenes in he Second and Third Macedonian Wars.

And even then Scipio is only mid-tier as far as Roman generals go (Mariua, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar of the world) whereas the Hellenes were past their peak (Phillip and Alexander) and Carthage only ever had the one (Hasdrubal was ok but he got BTFO as soon as he faced any decent opposition).

>>2602790
The average legionarie hadn't even ever an elephant

Pretty good. Had he stayed out of Sicily he could feasibly have fully destroyed Rome.

>>2600668
pyrrhic is an adjective in itself you fucking yuro trash