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In the third century B.C., Pyrrhus was the king of Epirus, a state located in modern-day Albania and Greece. Pyrrhus fought the Pyrrhic War to prevent the Romans from encroaching on Greece, and he was famous for narrowly winning battles despite suffering extremely devastating losses to his army. (This kind of counterproductive win is often called a “Pyrrhic victory.”)
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Episode 2: Nestor
Stephen quizzes his classroom full of students about the Greek king Pyrrhus and thinks about the meaning of human history and memory. One of his students, Armstrong,...
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Episode 7: Aeolus
...and English) but still fight to preserve “the radiance of the intellect,” kind of like Pyrrhus fought to save Greece.
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