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Pyrrha comes from a historical figure actually. The king Pyrrhus that resided in western greece. He tried to emulate what the great alexander did, but towoards the west. Unfortunately for him, this was the time the Romans made their appearance in Italy. He used the calls of help from greeck villages in italy as a justification for his attack towoards the romans. Though he won many of the battles, he had many losses on his side. The whole pyrrhic victory. So he headed back to greece where after conquering macedonia, he attacked sparta, and failed. Then he attacked argos, where he died quite ironically.

He had his helmet off for reasons, and was attacked by a spear, though it was not a lethal hit. He turned to the soldier, only for his old mother (who was up on a rooftop) to throw a TILE from the rooftop on his head, which knocked him of the horse and broke part of his spine paralyzing him. Historians werent sure if he died from that,  but his death was assured when a Macedonian soldier named Zopyrus, though frightened by the look on the face of the unconscious king, hesitantly and ineptly beheaded his motionless body.

Antigonus had him cremated with all honours and sent his surviving son Helenus back to Epirus. That same year, upon hearing the news of Pyrrhus's death, the Tarentinians surrendered to Rome.