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Entry: Pyrrhus the Eagle, King of Epirus: The Fool of Hope, 319-272 BC - A2583993
Author: Blackberry Cat, FMA, I want a rock to wind a piece of string around! - U516189

'It is so hard to find out the truth of anything by looking at the record of the past. The process of time obscures the truth of former times, and even contemporaneous writers disguise and twist the truth out of malice or flattery.'
Plutarch

I've had a stab at it anyway, sling your bolts

This looks interesting! I'll try and have a look at it later.

Hello Blackberry Cat

What an interesting read

All those places and kings' names Thank you for hugely informative footnotes, which helped me understand who was who - and who was related to who. There's a distinct lack of apostrophes in the footnotes though

'2' crops up a couple of times, instead of 'two'.

'garantee'

Other than that, it looks good

An excellent entry about someone I knew nothing about.

h2g2 style and guidelines:

You're not supposed to link to unedited h2g2 Guide Entries, so you should remove the reference to "You mean Don Ho".
whilst --> while (in a few places)
2 Roman consular armies --> two Roman consular armies
over 2 days --> over two days
lost 8 of his --> lost eight of his
In the conversation with Cineas, you should use 'single quotes' rather than "double quotes".
although I have also seen it translated as --> although it has also been translated as

Content:

Is Macedon the same place as Macedonia?

Was he Antigonus or Antigonius?


You should include the name Plutarch within the Block quote as follows:

blah blah
- Plutarch

Your Further Reading list would look better if you made it into an unordered list:







Punctuation, typos etc:

If you put something in italics, there is no need to put quotation marks around it as well.

In the Pyrrhic War King Pyrrhus --> In the Pyrrhic War, King Pyrrhus
assasinated --> assassinated
sieze --> seize
preeminant --> pre-eminent
seperated --> separated
Empire.and included --> Empire. and included
garrisioned --> garrisoned
most of Romes allies --> most of Rome's allies
of Romes walls --> of Rome's walls
garantee --> guarantee
Come Spring --> Come spring
manouvered --> manoeuvred
Tarenteum --> Tarentum
who in the world would would dare --> who in the world would dare
arguement --> argument
discribed --> described
Alexander the Greats generals --> Alexander the Great's generals
Alexander the Greats most valued generals --> Alexander the Great's most valued generals
by which the son of Achilles was known --> by which the son of Achilles were known
Soter(367 --> Soter (367
Alexander the Greats bodyguard --> Alexander the Great's bodyguard
Alexanders death --> Alexander's death
were also the Republics --> were also the Republic's
most persistant --> most persistent
Alexander the Greats Empire --> Alexander the Great's Empire
javalin --> javelin
Kings College --> King's College

Well done!



to Frenchbean.

Changed my mind about one of those:

You're right, it should be "by which the son of Achilles was known".

to Gnomon. Winner of the latest pedantry contest.

a laurel wreath to Gnomon
I'll get to work on all that this weekend
in case you didn't notice apostrophes are not my strongpoint, I strongly believe they are a blight upon humanity

all done I hope
I'll take another look when I've slept on it
FrenchBean, yes, it is a bit name and date heavy isn't it, unavoidable I think, there could easily have been even more
I used footnotes as much as possible rather than links to make it more complete in and of itself
I'm sorry to lose Don Ho but I was warned by the author he'd probably not make it through Peer Review
Macedon and Macedonia are used interchangably but most history books go with Macedon. I've changed it to Macedon when refering to the dynasty or kingdom and Macedonia when refering to the geographical area. I think thats sensible. The ancient kingdom and modern republic do not have the same borders.
Added a link to the Guide Entry on Greece, will add 1 to the Achilles entry

nobody else have any comments
that must mean its either perfect now or very very boring

Well, I found it interesting, as I said before.

thanks, since most of the entries I'm interested in writing will be historical I'm glad someone will be reading them

oh, and I'm currently reading 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' so hopefully I'll have mastered apostrophes by the time I submit my next entry

Oh crikey; and in time for my next one?

I doubt I'll be a fully qualified pedant by then

This looks great!

The rather lengthy quote from Plutarch made me think abotu a point one of the italics raised in another thread, though.

Although the original material wouldn't be under copyright protection, the *translation* could be.

good point
I just took a look at the source of that quotation and they are defnitely interested in the commercial applications of their work
I shall have to have another look for a source for those words unless I can think of a way round it

theres a translation by Dryden which is several centuries old
I can use that instead

Great! I'd cite the source and date of the translation in the entry, just so no one would worry about it.


Mikey

I've cut and pasted the quote from Dryden in but I haven't changed the format or credited it yet. However it is very long now, perhaps I'd be better trying to paraphrase it myself or cutting it, any thoughts?