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Pyrrhus - MSN Encarta (329 words) |
 | Pyrrhus (318?-272 bc), king of Epirus (307-272 bc), a district in ancient Greece. |
| He succeeded to the throne in 307 bc, later lost it, but was restored as king in 295 bc. |
| Early in 280 bc he sailed for Tarentum with a force of 25,000 men and 20 elephants and in the same year defeated the Romans at Heraclea, in the Roman province of Lucania, but at great cost to his army; hence the expression Pyrrhic victory. |
| COMM544: 1945-2000 (234 words) |
| 1275 BC: The prophet Moses and his brother AAron lead Isrealite tribesmen and their flocks of sheep out of Egypt toward the Dead Sea in Canaan, the beginning of a 40-year migration. |
| 318 BC: After restoration of the Athenian democracy, general Phocion--for intrigue with Macedonia--is forced by the democrats to kill himself; they almost immediately raise a statue in his honor. |
| 7 BC: Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem, near Jerusalem, the first child of a Jewish carpenter's wife; he works as a carpenter and rabbi in Nazareth before being baptized at age 30. |
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