At the Battle of Asculum, the Greek general Pyrrhus managed to defeat a larger Roman army, but at great cost, losing perhaps 10 percent of his men. The early biographer Plutarch claims that, as ...

At the battle of Asculum in 279 BC, the Greek king Pyrrhus defeated a Roman legion, but at frightful cost to his own troops. When sycophantic courtiers congratulated him on his "great victory," ...

A victory that destroys the victor is no victory at all.” In 279 BC, King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Roman army at the Battle of Asculum. His forces held the field. By every military measure, he ...