HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Greek East And Latin West, Roman Citizenship, Fourth Macedonian War
7 Feb 2018
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Not clear if the roman army was significantly tactically better than the other armies. Where you start to see the roman army winning against the greek armies is in the greek east. Hannibal (carthaginian king) made a treaty with philip v of macedon. After the war with hannibal the romans fight basically a war of revenge against. Battle of cynoscephalae (197) is the first time the roman army beats the macedonian phalanx. After the romans win they largely leave philip alone other than a fine and stuff. During the isthmian games the romans declare that the greeks will be freed after a occupation of a couple years. This is a pattern for rome - they don"t keep an occupation of their conquests. Again the romans declared war on the greece under philip"s son perseus. The general lucius aemilius paullus defeats the greeks at the battle of pydna and they win the war again.
