CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pyrrhic Victory, Pontifex Maximus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Roman army because they"ve never seen elephants before. In 279, they meet again in ausculum and romans are defeat again. *important: victory name a pyrrhic victory known as a victory causing almost causing the defeat of your own side, the main city in sicily is syracuse. Syracuse people asked pyrrhus to come down and fight the carthagians that are pushing into syracuse from the south. In 275, he returns to italy with a huge army and meets the romans at beneventum. *important: pyrrhus gets defeated by the romans. He was later killed by a tile that a lady threw at him: argos, city in argolis, ptolemy the pharaoh of egypt made a treaty with the romans. In 272, tarentum is conquered by rome because romans wanted to treat the greeks a lesson. The greeks brought this upon themselves by trying to prevent something that was never happening in the first place. *important: all of italy is now roman territory.