The Second Macedonian War was fought between the Roman Republic and Philip V of Macedon, together with some Greek allies. Rome, which had just defeated Carthage in the Second Punic War, was invited by Rhodes and Pergamon to deal with Philip's expansion in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean. After some years of inconclusive fighting, the Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus defeated Philip at the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly. The peace treaty forced Philip to give up his Greek possessions, to surrender most of his fleet and to pay an indemnity. At the Isthmian Games in 196 BCE, Flamininus proclaimed the freedom of the Greek cities, which marked the beginning of Roman influence in Greece.
Before and after
- 203 BCEScipio defeats Hannibal at Zama
- from 202 BCE to 46 BCEKingdom of Numidia
- 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
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