Episode 1 – Pyrrhic Victories
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Pyrrhus of Epirus travels across the Adriatic sea from Greece into Italy, coming to aid an ally in their struggle against Rome and to carve out an empire for himself. His Macedonian phalanx is the first foreign power on Italian soil; can the new Roman maniple take on an army considered at the time to be one of the most advanced in the ancient world?
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