In a previous episode I talked about how you can win by not losing.

That's called the Fabian strategy, named after Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus.

However, the opposite is true as well. You can lose by winning. Here too ancient history has an example for us, this

time in the case of King Puris, who defeated the Romans but ultimately lost without losing

a battle. Learn more about Puric victories and how we can win the battle and

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Everything Everywhere, all one word at checkout. The origins of the Pyrrhic victory extend way back almost 2,300 years ago to the ancient Mediterranean.

Rome was still a young republic at this point.

They hadn't yet conquered the Italian peninsula and they were still

fighting with their neighbors. In the southern part of Italy near the toe and the

heel of the boot were several Greek colonies. Across the Adriatic Sea just

south of the heel of the boot of Italy was the kingdom of

Apirus.

Apirus was located where Greece and Albania meet today near the area near the island of Corfu.

Apirus was a Greek kingdom, which usually isn't mentioned in the same category as places

like Sparta, Athens, or Corinth.

They lived in a mountainous area with smaller communities, not the larger cities that could

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