CLST 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Lucius Mummius Achaicus, Andriscus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 340
• Professor: Bernard Kavanagh

Document Summary

Under king perseus macedonia was expanding so much that they started to expand into the roman terriorty. In 171 one the two cities got into a pissing contest and had a war. In 168 lucius aemlius paullus and goes out with a smaller force than perseus to fight. The battle was in macedonia in a place called pydna. Forces li(cid:374)ed up a(cid:374)d paullus was scared of perseus" ar(cid:373)ies size a(cid:374)d their phala(cid:374)(cid:454) Roman soliders first charged and then retreated while the macedonians were moving up on the their rear. Roman casualties on that was about 80 to 100 men while king persues lost 25000 men that day. Paullus believes they should divide the state of macedonia into 4 republics none of which can have contact with another. This swt up only lasted twenty years. In 149 somone claiming to be the son of perseus, andriscus, raised a force of.