Battles

Heraclea


Most important places in the Pyrrhic War

Battle of Heraclea

Conflict

Roman-Epiriotic conflict

Date

280 BC

Place

Heraclea, Basilicata, southern Italy

Result

Epirote victory (a "Pyrrhic victory")

Combatants

by Petros E. Garoufalias ISBN 090574313X

Peter Connolly , , Greenhill Books, ISBN: 185367303X

Information about this war can be found in Plutarch's Lives, Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Livy.

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