What is Archaic Victory?
1.
The above definition is mistaken. What the author is talking about is not an "archaic victory," but a Pyrrhic victory.
Tony Soprano would probably refer to a Pyrrhic victory as an archaic victory.
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2.
A victory won at too great a cost.
A war won by a particular side, but in too great a cost: crippled economy, depleated population, ruined land. ETC.
"The country suffered an archaic victory."
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