Major conflict197 BCE

Battle of Cynoscephalae

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Cynoscephalae hills, Thessaly, Greece

Estimated casualties

700 – 13Kestimated dead

Roman casualties ~700; Macedonians reportedly lost ~8,000 killed and ~5,000 captured. Ancient figures, treated cautiously.

SOURCEPolybius/Livy summarized on Wikipedia

Titus Quinctius Flamininus's Roman-Aetolian army defeated Philip V of Macedon in Thessaly during the Second Macedonian War, demonstrating the flexibility of the Roman manipular legion against the Macedonian phalanx on broken ground. The battle ended the war and established Roman influence over Greece.

Belligerents2

Roman Republic and Aetolian League
Antigonid Macedon

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Cynoscephalae
Livius.org (Jona Lendering)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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