Talk:Pyrrhic War
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[edit] Carthage's Empire of Ba'al
It is no accident that Brennus (Brian) and Acichorios (?) led the Celts of Gaul to attack Greece in 279 BCE, squarely in the middle of the Pyrrhic War. Rome had allied with Carthage, run by the Priests of Ba'al. And the Celtic La Tene culture was also dominated by Ba'al worshipping Druids (for example, the festival of Bel-taine). Thus, the central Ba'al Priesthood in Carthage, upon declaring war against Greece, ordered its subservient Druids to send their flocks, ie the Celts, into Greece, even as Carthage warred against Greece from the Mediterranean front. Likewise, the Ba'al worshipping Druidic Celts allied with the Ba'al worshipping Carthaginians during the Punic Wars. Julius Caesar's conquest of Ba'al worshipping Gaul and attack on Ba'al worshipping Britain can be viewed as the "Fourth Punic War", mopping up the remnants of Carthage's Ba'al worshipping empire.
[edit] Elephants
Is it true that the Romans did not know elephants before Heraclea, and that they were scared by them in the first battle? I remember that from the school, but I am not completely sure it was true. 66.108.219.181 22:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- The elephants which had hitherto been kept in reserve were brought up to meet the cavalry; the horses took fright at them; the soldiers, not knowing how to encounter the huge beasts, turned and fled; the masses of disordered horsemen and the pursuing elephants at length broke the compact ranks of the Roman infantry, and the elephants in concert with the excellent Thessalian cavalry wrought great slaughter among the fugitives. - from "The History of Rome, Book II: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy", by Theodor Mommsen
[edit] comments
this article reads a lot like a book report.
- What did you expect? "Gladiator: the Prequel"? - Vedexent 13:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Complexities of the War
While most accounts of the war tend to concentrate on the Rome/Pyrrhus conflict (as this article does), the war was really a much more complicated affair. It was a "patchwork quilt" of conflicts, involving Rome, Epirus (Pyrrhus), many of the Latin nations (remember, this predates the quasi-unification of Italia under solid Roman hegemony), and Carthage. The Rome/Epirus conflicts were only one facet of the war, and all facets had impact on the others - even the city to city conflicts of the Latin peoples. All this should be brought into the article - Vedexent (talk • contribs) 21:50, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
