Intervention of Epirus
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Was a military expedition of Pyrrhus in southern Italy.
Chronology
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August 280 BC: After the battle of Eraclea, that anti-Roman understanding between Greeks and Italians, which part of the Tarentine aristocracy had been hoping for for some time, finally seemed to be cemented. Reinforcements from Lucania and Sannio joined Pyrrhus' army. Even the Bruttii rebelled. The Greek cities of Italy allied with Pyrrhus.
January 279 BC: King Pyrrhus of Epirus invaded Latium and Campania.
February 279 BC: The forces of Epirus leave Latium and Campania.
January 275 BC: While Pyrrhus was busy in his intervention in Sicily against the Carthaginians, Rome reoccupied without a fight all the previously lost territory in Apulia and Lucania. Once the rebellion of the Oscans and Samnites had been definitively put down, he arrived in the winter of 276 BC to put Taranto under siege again. The battle of Benevento took place in 275 BC. near the city then called Malevento, and it was the final episode of the Pyrrhic wars fought by Pirro, king of Epirus, against the Romans. Due to the defeat Pyrrhus abandoned the Italian campaign and returned to Epirus.
