Quote Originally Posted by abou
Right, but how can there be two Rs pronounced like that? Everything I know of Greek and Latin, in fact linguistics, points to the first R closing the first syllable: Pyr'rhos.
I'm not 100% sure about greek, but if it's a geminate r, then it probably indicates a trill as opposed to a flap. Trills are notorious for being ambisyllabic. I believe the 'h' indicates that the rhotic (whether it is a trill or flap) is voiceless.