Pyrrhic War - First Greco-Roman War 

Both Epiriotes and Sicilians were iIIyrians, this is just a civiI war

@@supermavro6072dumbest shit I evah heard

​@@supermavro6072 Sicillians are greek

@@plamenneykov2512 So were the Epeirotes.

​@@supermavro6072They were on the same side

@@AndreLuis-gw5ox - Maharbal was the Numidian cavalry commander, mind you. It's not attributed to Scipio at all and it has an ancient source, so, if apocryphal, it's an ancient "fake news". Maharbal was right anyhow.

I'd say that's pretty unfair. Hannibal did literally all it was possible to do in an unequal campaign. He and his armies spent two years, alone, in enemy territory doing a hit and run campaign of attrition and basically making life miserable for the Romans, and when that didn't seem to be sapping the Roman willpower enough, he brought his forces into a climatic fight that literally inflicted the biggest loss of people Rome ever took in one battle. Which any reasonable nation at that time would take as the time to sign a peace, Rome was just... Rome. He knew he couldn't stall to win a siege on Rome itself, because they'd be still get supplies via the sea, and if he sat in place for long enough, the Roman legions would pin him down and smash his smaller force. So when the battle of Cannae wasn't enough to break the Romans, he went back to the attrition war for the rest of the decade. Like... What else was he meant to do? It isn't his fault Carthage was losing Spain at that time.

@@lucyseverine9907 - The war was probably decided in Hispania and not in the most famous battles in Italy or Africa. I used to be fan of Hannibal but in hindsight all that crossing of the Alps feat was a nonsense: he could have fought and defeated the Romans at Gaul better and thus left a better protected rearguard and save that half of his army which unnecessarily perished in the daring but very inefficient crossing of the High Alps... with elephants (facepalm!) Beyond Hannibal's limitations, the most serious issue was that Rome had near-endless citizen manpower, while Carthage relied on vassal and mercenary troops. But in any case what Maharbal meant was that Rome does not surrender unless forced to,and that's something Hannibal and the Carthaginians (and other enemies of Rome like the Samnites, Etruscans and Greeks) didn't understand, hoping for negotiations. Again this is something I only recently understood, inspired by others, and something that happens over and over even today, when my country's guerrilla against one of the heirs of Rome was defeated for the very same reason: focusing on a negotiated peace instead of total victory.

2 of his brothers died while trying to support him with troops btw

@@LuisAldamizHannibal was a beast but he and the Carthaginians lacked proper grand strategy. Hannibal was right that a war on Rome’s homefront was the most assured way to guarantee an absolute victory but failed to take that grand strategy further. He should have solidified the alliances made with the Greek and Dacian states. Using them to reinforce/resupply if Carthage wasn’t capable. They should have built up their fleets to trap the Roman navy before they ever crossed the Mediterranean to Spain or Africa

Pyrrhus: OOOoOoh NOoOoOo

And Cartaghe helps Roman... And then .... Well, they just dispute a island.

an Oversimplified video in this period would be so cool, so many jokes

@@sometingwong2733 there's a tax for this, you know

We used that quote in our video on the Prelude to the First Punic War 😅

The same thing happened to me 2 years ago, I'm so glad he's back

@@supermavro6072 I had a stroke reading that

@@AU_Productions Yeah, it's surprising isn't ?

I did the same, but I just binged all of his videos in 3 days

I have an unfortunate spoiler alert if you wanna know what ended up happening to the Roman Empire.

Indomitable Roman spirit

​@@JJforShie1yeah, but hundreds of years later

@@JJforShie1 nah bro, I know the spoiler... I was just wondering the Roman resilience... It never fails to surprise.

But just like Pyrrhus he didn't march on Rome directly when he had the chance. Like what Maharbal said "you know how to gain a victory, but not how to use one".

@@silentecho92able it’s a very interesting aspect of these events. The fact these accomplished generals did not march on Rome shows us there perspective of how difficult they thought it was to take the city.

Thanks, it'll be about events related to Rome and Carthage that happened before the Punic Wars

@@MagistraVitae okay. So basically continuing the timeline?

Yes, in chronological order

​@@MagistraVitae Hi, I'm a huge fan of your channel and completely understand if you might have a tight time schedule, but do you have any hint as to when the next video might come out? I'm have been dying for more ever since I finished the entire series in a few hours lol

@Faris-bk6xu it's sometimes hard to balance video making with real life responsibilities, but we will try hard to put out a video every 2-3 week. We would love to publish them quicker, but between research, writing, animating and audio it takes some time. Glad you like them!

Yes, that was a mistake that snuck into the script first, and then the video.

@@marcoluppo5783 Alvane go back to your sheeps. Pyrrhus was 5,000% Greek. He has nothing to do with the Illyrians or turcoalbanians like you.

@@marcoluppo5783 Pyrrhus was 5,000% Greek. He has nothing to do with the Illyrians or turcoalbanians like you.

The characters are made as vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator along with the maps. The backgrounds are made in Photoshop and animations in After Effects.

@@MagistraVitae Appreciate it!

You should get a better history book 😂

Of course! As soon as we get to it chronologically.

@@MagistraVitae another iconic series after Dovahhatty. Go boys go!

All hail the algorithm

Ancient Epirus was inhabited by three different groups: the Chaonians, the Molossians, and the Thesprotians. Of these, the Molossians were the greatest and Pyrrhus himself was Molossian. The area of Epirus was inhabited by the proto-Greeks during the Bronze Age. In that time they spoke the proto-Greek language similar to one spoken in other parts of Greece. After the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Doric invasion the language evolved into the North-West Doric dialect of Ancient Greek (similar to one spoken Aetolia in the Peloponnese). After the Third Macedonian War in which the Molossians sided against Rome, they were systematically destroyed, but the Greek language couldn’t be erased from the region. In short: Pyrrhus and the Molossians were Greek, they saw themselves as Greek, and they spoke the Greek language. Pyrrhus was not Illyrian, and only connection he had to Illyria was that short period he spent there with Glaucias.

Pyrrhus is a greek name and he spoke greek,the romans themselves vjewed the conflict as Rome against the greeks 😂 go and read Cicero

Whoops, good catch there. A mistake from the script found itself on the video also. Luckily the years around that one are all good as far as I can see. And a minute later at 13:12 Asculum is correctly set to 279.

@@MagistraVitae rewatching the first 6 episodes of Rome with my 13yo daughter, she's enjoying it immensely. Kids should know real life lore too, not just gaming one, as the real one is more than often even more interesting (and often more gruesome) than the fictional one :)

Glad to hear that and I agree with you :)

Carthage IS the sea.

This white-ish is present on some emblems of Carthage. It is also used in some historical games such as the Total War series. That is why we chose that color specifically. In the future videos we will add a bit more blue to the sea so there will be more of a contrast. Thank you :)

@@MagistraVitae i actually figured that’s why you chose that color, haha! i also associate white with carthage.

No, we are referring to the Greek style xiphos sword. It is somewhat longer than gladius, but still shorter than a Greek spear. It's true that the Romans started using shorter gladius during the Second Punic War, but it's not true that they used a Greek style phalanx in the time of Pyrrhus. During the Samnite Wars the Romans switched from a Greek style phalanx, to a Samnite style maniple system. Although the triarii in the third line used spears, the first two lines used swords instead. If you want to learn more I invite you to take a look at our video on Roman military reforms. Cheers :)

It did

Those were likely Macedonian allies or Vassal states that Alexander propped up because governing it was not feasible. Similar to the tributary system that the Persians adopted Alexander likely copied them and made Autonomous states that are a pain to be governed by Greeks but easy to govern by locals.

I think those are Heraclea Pontica and Pontus

​@@nathac487thanks 👍

@@nathac487Pontic Greeks always wanting independence

No, it was called Maleventum because the name in the osci language was Maloenton (root Mal related to rock and stone, it was a place where it was extracted) and the Romans decided to call it Maleventum (that actually means bad event) because it was the way the pronunciation could be romanised.

@@matteovillosio - Interesting. However I wonder how linguists have found that "mal-" meant stone or similar, when Oscan is poorly attested and should be anyhow close to Latin (Italic). The only possible Indoeuropean cognate I can find is Celtic (mostly Brythonic) *maginos. Does it follow that logic?

No, we have no connection to any other channel.

@@MagistraVitae you must be from the same country or something with that accent