Скачать или смотреть Why Winning Nearly Destroyed Rome (280–275 BCE)

The Pyrrhic War (280–275 BCE) is remembered for a phrase — “a Pyrrhic victory.”
But it reveals something far more important: how Rome learned to survive a war it was not meant to survive.

When Pyrrhus, one of the greatest generals of the Greek world, invaded Italy with professional armies and war elephants, Rome should have collapsed. Instead, it endured — losing battles, adapting, and outlasting a king who needed victory to end the war.

This documentary follows the Pyrrhic War from Heraclea to Asculum and Beneventum, tracing the moment Rome reveals what kind of power it will become.

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