The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus by Nicholas Sekunda & Peter Dennis

Author:Nicholas Sekunda & Peter Dennis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472833648
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Aftermath

Shocked by such barbarity towards a great king, Antigonos Gonatas had Pyrrhus cremated in the middle of the marketplace, and a monument of white marble was built on the site of the pyre, carved in relief with elephants and his other instruments of war (Paus. 2. 21. 4).

Antigonos was now able to reunite Macedonia. He made himself master of Pyrrhus’s now leaderless army, including its Macedonian contingent, and dealt mildly with the ‘friends’ of Pyrrhus (P. 34. 6), sending Helenus back to Epirus. The death of Pyrrhus made the presence of the Epirote garrison at Tarentum untenable; the Tarentines started to launch attacks on Milon, and sent envoys to Rome. Finding himself fighting the Tarentines and Romans on land and the Carthaginians at sea, Milon entered negotiations with the Roman consul Papirius Cursor. He obtained liberal terms for the Epirotes: he and his men were able to hand over the unguarded city to the Romans, and were allowed to depart complete with their military chest. The Tarentines had to hand over their arms and ships to the Romans, demolish their walls, and agree to pay tribute (Frontin. Strat. 3. 3. 1; Zonaras 8. 6).

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