Pyrrhus

I don't care at all about your postings since you can't provide any counter arguments to my sources that prove that Epirotes were Greek. What does hellenized mean by the way? It is well known that both Macedonians and Epirotes spoke northwestern Greek dialects, as it is obvious by inscriptions and other texts. If they had been hellenized lingually they would use dialects and types of southern Greeks. However, both of them had their own distinctive ways of speech as we have found out.

The fact that you consider Epirus to be an Illyrian land proves your expansionist dreams to lower south. If you want my homeland, come and get it (although I doubt it).

Pyrrhos enjoyed an excellent reputation for tactics and generalship in ancient times and allegedly authored a tactical manual. In fact, many ancient thought Pyrrhos the greatest tactician:

"Prokles of Carthage gave higher marks for good luck and glittering successes to Philip's son Alexander, but for infantry and cavalry tactics and for inventive generalship he reckoned Pyrrhos was the better man"

-Pausanias 

Pyrrhos came very close to creating a western based empire similar to Alexander's eastern one, and this against tougher opponents. If he were not 'a fool of hope' history could have been much different.

The Life of Pyrrhus

He was raised in Illyria by king Glaucus and he had an Illyrian wife and a son

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/L ives/Pyrrhus*.html#2

Dude I know you can't believe this but is written by Plutarch!

Or you can read the whole part, not just the 1st paragraph try to have more patience!

9In order to enlarge his interests and power he married several wives after the death of Antigone. He took to wife, namely, a daughter of Autoleon, king of the Paeonians; Bircenna, the daughter of Bardyllis the Illyrian; and Lanassa, the daughter of Agathocles of Syracuse, who brought him as her dowry the city of Corcyra, which had been captured by Agathocles. By Antigone he had a son Ptolemy, Alexander by Lanassa, and Helenus, his youngest son, by Bircenna. He brought them all up to be brave in arms and fiery, and he whetted them for this from their very birth.