- Never near Argos -

[Mediolanicus]

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Reminds me of Marathon. Good updates dude and thanks for the balloon.

Yeah, you're right! I didn't think of it at the time of writing, but it looks a bit like the Persian retreat after Marathon.

Since only two people do more than lurking here I figured they deserved a balloon.

Book VII, 26-31.

Background:

Alexandros had lost his army. Athena was back in Antigonid hands. But, the Antigonids now knew the cost of killing an Aiakid. When Alexandros arrived back in Epeiros he thanked his survivors for their services, distributed the loot of the campaign and let them go home to their families.
When he himself returned to Ambrakia in the autumn of 262 he heard about his father’s retreat from Italy. Pyrrhos and his Italian army had disembarked on the island of Corcyra (Corfu). We have seen earlier that the Epirote citizens did not like their king’s engagement to the far away Taras. The general probably had expected a very different coming-home.

The text:

[…]
Pyrrhos had sent messengers to Ambrakia to announce his return. Thereupon the citizens of the city assembled and voted over this matter. Almost all agreed that Pyrrhos should no longer be considered their king and that he was not welcome with his army of foreigners.
[…]
After this they unanimously declared Alexandros as their king.
[…]
Almost all the other important cities followed the example of Ambrakia and sent messengers to Pyrrhos to tell him that he and his army were not to enter their territory.
[…]
Alexandros felt sorry for his father, but he had just excepted a ceasefire with the Antigonids. They could keep Athena, while he could keep Pella. Epeiros also had to pay a large yearly sum for the next 10 years.
The war was finally over, but he knew his father would want to renew the conflict immediately, so he accepted the offer to come to Ambrakia, where he was crowned as King of Epeiros.
[…]
Pyrrhos knew he had two options: to invade Epeiros, attack his own son and reclaim his throne or either to go into voluntary exile. He chose the latter and loaded all those who still wanted to follow him back on the ships – Budaros, the Illyrian admiral of the fleet was only loyal to Pyrrhos himself and not to the Epirote throne – and set sail to the East.
[…]