Pyrrhus, suddenly abandoning Macedonia in 272 BCE…

272 BCE

Pyrrhus, suddenly abandoning Macedonia in 272 BCE for an invasion of southern Greece,  launches an unsuccessful attack on Sparta to restore Cleonymus to the kingship.

Antigonus, although he retains only a few Macedonian cities, follows Pyrrhus when the latter marches into the Peloponnese.

Pyrrhus is killed, however, in a night skirmish in the streets of Argos, struck to the ground by a tile hurled down by a woman watching from the roof; …

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