In the book of Jacob Эббота told about life and exploits of tsar and war-lord Пирра. He lived in the period of instability and soldiery gambles, coming post mortem Alexander Macedonian and shipwrecks of great empire. Thirst of victory drove the tsar of Epirus about: at first to Italy, after on Sicily, then on Peloponnesus. And every times after signal victories he forced to retreat, submitting to the circumstances unsubject him to war-lord talent. An author recreates the bright and contradictory atmosphere of distant epoch of late Antiquity.