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A History of the Pyrrhic War (Hardcover)
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A History of the Pyrrhic War (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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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.
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