025: Pyrrhus - Wars with the Diadochi, & Westward Ho! (296-280 BC)

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🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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With the throne of Epirus secure, Pyrrhus would throw himself into the wars of the Diadochi, fighting for control of Macedon against the likes of Demetrius I Poliorcetes and Lysimachus I. It would not be long though before he would turn his eyes to the west, thanks to the meddling of Italian barbarians: the Roman Republic. Title Theme: Seikilos Epitapth with the Lyre of Apollo, played by Lina Palera (https://soundcloud.com/user-994392473) War and Conquest Podcast: iTunes: (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/war-and-conquest/id1408974222) Website: (https://www.warandconquest.com/) Spreaker: (https://www.spreaker.com/show/war-and-conquest) Links: Website/Show Notes: (https://hellenisticagepodcast.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/025-pyrrhus-pt-2-wars-with-the-diadochi-westward-ho-296-280-bc/) iTunes: (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hellenistic-age-podcast/id1377920930?mt=2) SoundCloud: (https://soundcloud.com/user-103425037) Stitcher: (https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-hell%E2%80%A6stic-age-podcast) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/hellenisticagepodcast/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/HellenisticPod)

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0:00.0	Do you love learning about long period of uninterrupted human cooperation, peace, and prosperity?
0:07.1	Me neither. That's why I created war and conquest, a weekly podcast that can be found,
0:13.2	wherever you get your podcast, where we talk about the greatest conquerors in history.
0:18.2	Joshua and its Israelites, Alexander the Great, and his Macedonians, the
0:22.2	First Crusaders, the Crusader kings of the Crusader states, were the series about the Third Crusade
0:28.3	and Julius Caesar and his Romans coming down the pike as we speak. There's violence, battles,
0:34.7	sieges, sacking, pillage and burning, grand campaigns of conquest that
0:40.3	reshaped the face of the world and influenced the rise of the West as we know it today.
0:45.3	With more information than the History Channel would dream of giving you, combined with the occasional randomness of an improv comic,
0:52.3	I set out to make history fun again.
0:56.2	Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
1:05.4	Hi there, you're listening to the Hellenistic Age podcast.
1:10.2	Episode 25.
1:12.2	Pyrriss Part 2.
1:14.0	Wars with the Deidohoi and Westward Ho, 296 to 280 BC.
1:24.9	When we last left the story, our protagonist, King Pyrus, had recovered his throne of
1:31.0	Malasia in Epirus and eliminated his rival king, Neoptolemus II, in a rather convoluted plot.
1:38.6	Despite the murderous hiccup, Pyrrhus was now the undisputed ruler of Epirus, and with his nation relatively
1:45.2	untouched by the wars of Alexander the great successors, he could now take his revenge
1:50.1	against the man who caused him to be on the run and an exile from his own kingdom, since
1:55.0	he was but an infant, King Cassander I of Macedon.
2:00.5	But this could never happen.
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