pyrrhus

Hannibal's inflated opinion of himself and Pyrrhus is emblematic of the problem of tactical myopia.

What would have happened if Hannibal or Pyrrhus or Cyrus offered the reward instead?

As King Pyrrhus found out the hard way fighting the Romans.

One reading of the (admittedly somewhat poor) evidence suggests that this is how Pyrrhus of Epirus used his elephants – to great effect – against the Romans.

I believe they picked up the idea from Pyrrhus around 279 BC.

Surprised there's no mention of Pyrrhus of Epirus.

Hannibal said, Alexander, Pyrrhus and myself.

It is sometimes argued that Pyrrhus essentially created an ‘articulated phalanx’ using lighter infantry and elephants to cover gaps – effectively joints – in his main heavy pike phalanx line.

It was this Cineas, then, who, seeing that Pyrrhus was eagerly preparing an expedition at this time to Italy, and finding him at leisure for the moment, drew him into the following discourse.

This is one of the situations where anything half-assed becomes a blood bath and a "victory" à la Pyrrhus..

These are sometimes called “Pyrrhic victories.” Pyrrhus took the battlefield, but after the battle his chances of winning were reduced.

To paraphrase Pyrrhus himself: "One more such victory will undo Pakistan (at least on the internet)."

So some prefer to disambiguate: ' «veni, vidi, "vici"», said the epigone of Pyrrhus '.

Merely to visit such lands transcended human expectation.' > Asked whom he would place second, Hannibal said: 'Pyrrhus.

And then later on in the story, the son of Achilles (Neoptolemus aka Pyrrhus) hides inside the wooden horse and helps sack the city.

Hannibal said, I'd have put myself ahead of both Alexander and Pyrrhus.