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In 88 BC, Athens and other Greek city-states revolted against Rome and were suppressed by General Lucius Cornelius Sulla. During the Roman civil wars, Greece was physically and economically devastated until Augustus organised the peninsula as the province of Achaea, in 27 BC.
18 maj 2020 · By the middle of the 5th century BC, relations between the two most powerful Greek city-states – Athens and Sparta – had become increasingly strained, a dynamic which led to the Peloponnesian War, an exhausting and bloody conflict which started in 431 BC and lasted almost 28 years.
Volume I of this two-volume History reflects these developments and provides a systematic account, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek world from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period and of Early and Middle Republican Rome.
4 lut 2010 · Classical Greece, a period between the Persian Wars and the death of Alexander the Great, was marked by conflict as well as political and cultural achievements.
978-0-521-78273-9 — The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare Volume 1: Greece, The Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome Edited by Philip Sabin , Hans van Wees , Michael Whitby
Much of the early defining mathematics, science, artistic thought (architecture, sculpture), theatre, literature, philosophy, and politics of Western civilization derives from this period of Greek history, which had a powerful influence on the later Roman Empire.
Roman victory in the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars established Rome as a super-regional power by the 2nd century BC, followed by the acquisition of Greece and Asia Minor.
