He was a second-cousin of Alexander the Great, and his wife was the daughter of Ptolemy 1, whom he married while he being held hostage in Alexandria. Subsequent to his most famous campaigns, he was offered the kingship of the Sicilian Greek cities in order to combat the Carthaginians, which he successfully accomplished, although he was forced out by the Sicilians themselves due to his despotic ways. He defeated the Romans under Laevinus at (*) Heraclea in 280 BCE, but the Romans refused to negotiate with him. For 10 poi
He was a second-cousin of Alexander the Great, and his wife was the daughter of Ptolemy 1, whom he married while he being held hostage in Alexandria. Subsequent to his most famous campaigns, he was offered the kingship of the Sicilian Greek cities in order to combat the Carthaginians, which he successfully accomplished, although he was forced out by the Sicilians themselves due to his despotic ways. He defeated the Romans under Laevinus at (*) Heraclea in 280 BCE, but the Romans refused to negotiate with him. For 10 points, what Greek general defeated the Romans again at Asculum the next year, but at so great a cost to himself that another such victory would have "utterly undone" him?
He was a second-cousin of Alexander the Great, and his wife was the daughter of Ptolemy 1, whom he married while he being held hostage in Alexandria.
{Pyrrhus} of Epirus