Today's installment concludes Pyrrhus Attacks Rome,our selection by Plutarch.If you have journeyed through all of the installments of this

When he reached the doors of the senate house his sons and sons-in-law supported him and guided him into the house, while all the assembly observed a

When he saw many shields of the Roman infantry appearing over the river bank and their horsemen all ranged in order, he closed up his own ranks and

Heaven," answered Pyrrhus, "alone can give us victory and success; but these conquests would merely prove to us the stepping-stones to greater