Greek and Roman Worlds

Foreign Wars

 

First Punic War

Polybius

First Punic War - Hiero II - Hamilcar Barca

Fabius Maximus - Flaminius - Marcellus

 

Second Punic War

Second Punic War - Hannibal - Hasdrubal

Masinissa - Scipio Africanus - Cato the Elder

 

Conquests in the East

First Macedonian War - Attalus I - Philip V

Second Macedonian War - Flamininus

Antiochus III

Third Macedonian War - Perseus - Aemilius Paulus

Third Punic War

Third Punic War - Scipio Aemilianus

Lucius Mummius Achaicus

 

Literature

Plautus - Ennius - Terence

Art & Architecture

Roman Forum - Pergamon Altar - Aqua Marcia

• Timeline: Hellenistic Greece (pdf)
• Map: Roman Expansion in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries

• Polybius (203-120) (wiki)
• Text: Histories (LacusCurtius)

• Appian: The Foreign Wars (perseus)
• The Wars in Spain
• The Hannibalic War
• The Punic Wars
• Macedonian Affairs
• The Illyrian Wars
• Syrian Wars

• First Punic War

• Morey: Outlines of Roman History (forumromanum.org)
• Chapter XIV: First Punic War

• Cassius Dio: Roman History (LacusCurtius)
• Books 11-12: First Punic War

• First Punic War (wiki)

• 260 Battle of Mylae (wiki)
• 256 Battle of Cape Ecnomus (wiki)
• 255 Battle of Tunis (wiki)
• 241 Battle of Aegates Islands (wiki)

• Hiero II of Syracuse (r. 270-215) (wiki)

• Hamilcar Barca (270-228) (wiki)

• Fabius Maximus (275-203) (wiki)
• 233 Consul
• 221 Dictator

• Gaius Flaminius (d. 217) (wiki)
• 232 Tribune
• 227 Governor of Sicily
• 224 Battle of Telamon (wiki)
• 223 Consul
• 220 Censor
• 217 Consul

• Marcus Claudius Marcellus (268-208) (wiki)
• 222 Consul

• Second Punic War

• Timeline: Late Roman Republic (pdf)

• Morey: Outlines of Roman History (forumromanum.org)
• Chapter XV: Second Punic War

• Cassius Dio: Roman History (LacusCurtius)
• Books 13-17: Second Punic War

• Second Punic War (wiki)

• 218 Battle of the Trebia (wiki)
• 217 Battle of Lake Trasimene (wiki)
• 216 Battle of Cannae (wiki)
• 208 Battle of Baecula (wiki)
• 207 Battle of the Metaurus (wiki)
• 206 Battle of Ilipa (wiki)
• 202 Battle of Zama (wiki)

• Hannibal Barca (247-183) (wiki)

• Hasdrubal Barca (d. 207) (wiki)

• Masinissa of Numidia (238-148) (wiki)

• Scipio Africanus (235-183) (wiki)

• Cato the Elder (234-149) (wiki)

• Conquests in the East

• Morey: Outlines of Roman History (forumromanum.org)
• Chapter XVI: Conquests in the East

• Cassius Dio: Roman History (LacusCurtius)
• Books 18-21: Foreign Wars

• 215-205 First Macedonian War (wiki)

• Attalus I of Pergamon (r. 241-197) (wiki)

• Philip V of Macedon (r. 221-179) (wiki)

• 200-196 Second Macedonian War (wiki)

• Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228-174) (wiki)
• Plutarch's Life of Flamininus (mit.edu)
• 197 Battle of Cynoscephalae (wiki)

• Antiochus III (r. 223-187) (wiki)
• 190 Battle of Magnesia

• 171-168 Third Macedonian War (wiki)

• Perseus of Macedon (179-168) (wiki)

• Aemilius Paulus (229-160) (wiki)
• Plutarch's Life of Aemilius Paulus (mit.edu)
• 168 Battle of Pydna (wiki)

• Third Punic War

• Morey: Outlines of Roman History (forumromanum.org)
• Chapter XVII: Reduction of the Roman Conquests
• Chapter XVIII: Rome as a World Power

• 149-146 Third Punic War (wiki)
• 146 Carthage demolished

• Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (185-129) (wiki)

• Lucius Mummius Achaicus (wiki)
• 146 Corinth demolished

• Literature

• The Latin Library

• Plautus (254-184) (wiki)
• Plautus (perseus)

• Ennius (239-169) (wiki)

• Terence (d. 159) (wiki)
• Terentius (perseus)

• Art & Architecture

• Roman Forum (wiki)
• Forum Romanum (lacus curtius)
• Il Foro Romano
• Roman Forum VR
• Roman Forum model
• 184 Basilica Porcia (perseus)
• 179 Basilica Aemilia (wiki)
• Basilica Aemilia (lacus curtius)

• 180 Pergamon Altar (wiki)

• 144-140 Aqua Marcia (wiki)
• Aqua Marcia (lacus curtius)

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