Major conflict168 BCE

Battle of Pydna

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Plain south of Pydna, Macedonia, Greece

Estimated casualties

100 – 26Kestimated dead

Roman losses minimal (~100 killed); Macedonians reportedly lost over 20,000 killed and ~6,000 captured. Ancient figures, treated cautiously.

SOURCEPlutarch/Livy summarized on Wikipedia

Lucius Aemilius Paullus's Roman army annihilated the Macedonian phalanx of King Perseus in the Third Macedonian War, ending the Antigonid dynasty and Macedonian independence. The battle is a classic demonstration of the legion's adaptability over the phalanx once its formation was broken.

Belligerents2

Roman Republic
Antigonid Macedon

ON THE MAPRoman Republic

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Pydna
Britannica: Battle of Pydna
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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