Status Updates From Pyrrhus / by Jacob Abbott ;...

I didn’t realize Persephone had her own temple. At Locri, Italy

Pyrrhus was ill-equipped to be a king. He should’ve just been a general

The Mamertine invasion of Sicily…

~ It was a political, a social, and a domestic revolution all in one.

I think this is the sixth Alexander now. I’m having trouble keeping them all straight

A poisoned toothpick? That’s a new one

To orient myself in time, this is around 290-280 BC

Elephants again! Did elephants dwell in Greece in the past??

Pyrrhus to his army: if I am an eagle, I owe it to you, for you are the wings by means of which I have risen so high.

Pyrrhus was compared to Alexander the Great in a favorable manner? Why have I not heard of him before?

Macedonia is such a mess.

Pyrrhus’s wife is named Antigone? Have those people been listening to Greek mythology?

And it is discovered that the titular figure in question is an infant at this point

The titular figure is finally mentioned here (59 pages into the book)

The elephants at the siege of Megalopolis are most interesting! They must’ve been Asian elephants but from where?? And that reminds me of Hannibal and his elephants…don’t tell me he managed to tame the mighty African elephant?

Ah, the Eurydice I was thinking of is the one from Greek mythology. So who is this Eurydice?

I think the lesson we can take from Perdiccas here is to never go against a general whom your own troops are fond of. If you do, you very likely will lose your own life.

My goodness, the political intrigues after Alexander’s death is the equivalent of the contrivances of a modern-day soap opera

Eurydice…that name is so familiar

~ Nor was this a very extraordinary result; for we often see that a refractory woman, who can not by any process be made to submit to her husband, is easily and completely managed by a son.

Me: ope this is true

This account of Alexander the Great’s parents is FASCINATING

Planning on using this for a book without an E in the title for ATY

It was the Gateway to the Classics (a website with 389 authors listed!), and I'm trying to familiarize myself with more classic authors. Jacob Abbott was the first, because of where his last name falls alphabetically.

Pre-read: trying to have one non-fiction book going at all times alongside my fiction reads. I'm reading this because of a website...which website was it?

« Help us fight the Romans Pyrrhus, you are the only man that can save us, » said the Terintinians.

Nothing feeds a leaders ego more than to be needed to « save the day. »

Pyrrhus is at last 20 years old and the favored one of King Ptolemy of Egypt.