Beschrijving

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pyrrhias was an Aetolian general, who was sent by his countrymen during the Social War (220-217 BC), to take the command in Elis. Here he took advantage of the absence of Philip V of Macedon, and the incapacity of Eperatus the Achaean strategos, to make frequent incursions into the Achaean territories. Having established a fortified post on Mount Panachaikon, he laid waste the whole country as far as Rhion and Aigion. The next year (217 BC) he concerted a plan with Lycurgus, king of Sparta, for the invasion of Messenia.