The Roman–Seleucid War was fought between the Roman Republic and the Seleucid king Antiochus III, who had campaigned in Asia Minor and Thrace and accepted the exiled Carthaginian general Hannibal at his court. Rome allied with Greek states including the Aetolian League's rivals and Pergamon, and its legions landed in Greece. Antiochus was defeated at Thermopylae in 191 BCE and then decisively at Magnesia ad Sipylum in 190 BCE by a Roman army under the consul Lucius Scipio, with his famous brother Scipio Africanus on his staff. The Treaty of Apamea in 188 BCE forced him to give up Asia Minor west of the Taurus and pay a heavy indemnity. The war marked the arrival of Roman power in the eastern Mediterranean and the decline of the Seleucids.
Before and after
- 3rd century BCEConstruction of Ajanta Caves
- 200 BCEOrigins of Nazca Lines
- from 200 BCE to 197 BCESecond Macedonian War
- 196 BCERosetta Stone
- from 192 BCE to 188 BCERoman–Seleucid War
- 190 BCEBirth of Hipparchus
- 183 BCEDeath of Hannibal
- from 180 BCE to 10 CEIndo-Greek Kingdoms
- 2nd century BCEWinged Victory of Samothrace
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