Quote Originally Posted by johnhughthom View Post
I wonder if EB players,including me, exaggerate the importance of Phyrrus since he was alive at the right time to be part of EB. Something I was reading recently described Phyrrus as "a minor Greek king" (can't remember exactly what it was, a translation of Seutonius or Plutarch I think) and I remember being surprised, but when I think about it it sounds like an apt description.
Read Mommsen's description of Pyrrhos. He may have been a minor figure in history, but an interesting one, nevertheless. It's sort of a tragic story, I think. Wrong guy in the wrong place, a wrong king in a changed world. Would he have been more successful had he lived 200 years earlier?