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Rome enters the Greek World

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Page 1: HS 100 8th lecture - WordPress.com · Ptolemaic victory over the Seleucids (217 BC) Roman conquest of Syracuse (212 BC) Roman victories in Italy (212—207 BC) Macedonian victories

Rome  enters  the  Greek  World  

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Rome  and  the  Hellenis3c  World  at  the  3me    of  the  first  Punic  War  264-­‐241  BCE  

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The  Pull  to  the  West  

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Pyrrhos  King  of  Epiros  

(319/318–272  BCE)    

The  Hellenis3c  World  looks  

West  

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Second  cousin  to  Alexander  Brother  in  law  to  Demetrios  

Ally  to  Ptolemy  I  Soter  of  Egypt  and  Ptolemy  Keraunos  of  Macedonia  

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Two  victories:  Pyrrhic  victories  Why  so  hard?  

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So  what  makes  the  Romans  such  stubborn,  dangerous  losers?      

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The  Romans  

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Synoecism:  Remember  Athens?    

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Born  of  diversity,  growing  by  integra3on    

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A  story  of  melding  with  others  

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A  mixed  cons3tu3on  by  Greek  standards  

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The  Roman  Senate:  An  aristocracy  in  assembly?  

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Vote  for  all  

From  early  on  

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2  Consuls  to  rule  them  all  

The  holders  of  Imperium  

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A  new  Greek  reality  in  the  3rd  c.  

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The  challenge  of  Hannibal:  Cheesy  image,  mortal  danger  

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Macedonia  intervenes    where  it  should  not  

 Philip  V  allies  himself  to  Hannibal  beginning  of  aggressive  Roman  

interven3on  in  Greece  

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In  come  the  Romans  to  change  everything  Aemilius  Paulus’  Monument  at  Pydna  (168  BCE)  

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He  came,  he  saw,  he  fell  in  love  

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And  the  conquest  is  complete  Augustus  unites  the  Mediterranean