Pyrrhus
King of Epirus, being obliged, on the murder of his father, to seek safety by flight, found a home, parent, and tutor in Glaucus, King of Illyria, and ascended his father's throne, 295 B. C. Having attempted to possess himself of Macedon, he was defeated in a great battle. In 281 B. C. he made war on the Romans with the Samnites and in a battle fought on the Syris, in Calabria, totally defeated the Roman army. It cost him heavily however and the Romans ultimately triumphed. Pyrrhus returned to Greece, and, in a subsequent war with the Argives, was killed, by a tile thrown on his head from the roof of a house, as he entered Argos, 273 в. c.