Pirro the Hero Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos

Pirro the Hero

Pyrrhus, Pirro or Pyrrhos (Greek Πύρρος, Pyrros; 319/318 BC–272 BC) a Greek general and statesman of the Hellenistic era.
 
From circa 297 BC (Pyrrhus) Pirro was the King of the Greek tribe of Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house, and later he became king of Epirus and Macedon. Pirro was one of the strongest opponents of early Rome. 

Simultaneously in 278 BC, Pyrrhus (Pirro) received two offers . The Greek cities in Sicily asked him to come and drive out Carthage, which along with Rome; one of the two great powers of the Western Mediterranean. At the same time, the Macedonians, whose King Ceraunus had been killed by invading Gauls, asked Pyrrhus to ascend the throne of Macedon. Pirro decided that Sicily offered him a greater opportunity, and transferred his army there.

Pyrrhus was proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus to inherit the kingdom of Sicily and his other son Alexander to be given Italy. In 277 BC, Pyrrhus captured Eryx, the strongest Carthaginian fortress in Sicily. This prompted the rest of the Carthaginian-controlled cities to defect to Pyrrhus

The article on Pirro, who offered to readers today, is a translation that aims to present the public a sense of his forgotten: qualities, military roles and political history. Pyrrhus uses the name Pirro, as seen in this picture.

Literature recognizes Pirro as a representatives of the three largest art military helenistik, Philip of Macedonia and supports Hanibalit. Pirro credited the military planning support diplomacy as an instrument equal. Thus, a strategist who seeks the war in the context of a project and that the investigation provides diplomatic peace. A man who started with the model of Alexander the Great and career closed with a product, which brought inspirimin the mythical hero of the study table in genuine military, while leaving behind  a project and a vision that was realized, and is known, from Rome.

When the Balkans aimed Mediterranean empire. Dealing between Helene and Roman world. Pirro’s Epirit, a planner and visionary, Pirro was a hero rather than a statesman, who reformed the military art. 

Pirro's great ambition was fueled by human quality, so great. Due to his superior cavalry and his elephants, he defeated the Romans.

Pirro, with personal courage, more than one occasion, he decided the fate of the battle, while they personally intervened this dealing was crucial. But Pirro stood much closer to our modern understanding. More so than a leading state hero. He was able to express and formulate strategies geopolitical as well as qualitative complex, a project designed to bring Pirro domination in the Mediterranean. He was able to rationalize its military doctrine in a work that has been lost, but in antiquity brought the consolidation of his reputation beyond his military successes.
 

Pirro became a center of advanced strategic studies “whether to use a term of our days.

Even though, Pirro seemed like an impulsive and often edgy King, he was considered one of the greatest military commanders of his time.
Plutarch (Ploútarkhos ) records that Hannibal (a Punic Carthaginian military commander, generally considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.) ranked Pirro (Pyrrhus) as the greatest commander the world had ever seen. Appian gives an alternative to the story, in which Hannibal placed him second after Alexander the Great.

In Italy between Fasano, Noci, Alberobello and Putignano situated in the “Barsento” among centuries-old olive trees you will find “Canale di Pirro” ("The Canal of Pyrrhus")