CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Panaetius, Edward Gibbon, Polymath
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Tyranny consuls: they hired pyrrhus of epirus (northwestern greece; 318-272 bce) to get victory over the romans k. i. Oracle of delphi says he"ll win many victories k. ii. Brought 3,000 cavalry, 2,000 archers, 500 slingers, 20,000 infantry, and 19 war elephants k. iv. Clever general and strategist; second only to hannibal k. v. Rome rejects any form of peace treaty k. v. 2. Battle of heraclea: 280 bce; 7,000 romans dead, 4,000. He couldn"t sustain the loss of so many men, and he was. Pyrrhic victory : win the battles, lose the wars forced to surrender to rome. Philip v of macedon: descended from successors of alexander the great, promised aid to hannibal during second punic wars but did not intervene, legacy of alexander (spread greek culture: hellenization of east) Alexander the great: son of philip ii of macedon, greatest conqueror of antiquity: greece, egypt, persia, india b. i. Independent kingdoms: rhodes, pergamum, nicomedia c: while romans were fighting the carthaginians these conquests were happening.
