Second Macedonian War

Second Macedonian War
Part of Macedonian Wars
The Aegean on the eve of the Second Macedonian War, c. 200 BC
Date 200–197 BC Location Greece Result Roman victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic Kingdom of Pergamon Rhodes Aetolian League Athens	Antigonid Macedonia
Commanders and leaders
Titus Flamininus Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus	Philip V of Macedon

Roman Republic
Kingdom of Pergamon
Rhodes
Aetolian League

Titus Flamininus

The Second Macedonian War (200–197 BC) was fought between Macedon, led by Philip V of Macedon, and Rome, allied with Pergamon and Rhodes. The result was the defeat of Philip who was forced to abandon all his possessions in southern Greece, Thrace and Asia Minor. During their intervention, and although the Romans declared the "freedom of the Greeks" against the rule from the Macedonian kingdom, the war marked a significant stage in increasing Roman intervention in the affairs of the eastern Mediterranean which would eventually lead to their conquest of the entire region.

In 204 BC King Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt died, leaving the throne to his six-year-old son Ptolemy V. Philip V of Macedon and Antiochus the Great of the Seleucid Empire decided to exploit the weakness of the young king by taking Ptolemaic territory for themselves and they signed a secret pact defining spheres of interest. Philip first turned his attention to the independent Greek city states in Thrace and near the Dardanelles. His success at taking cities such as Kios worried the states of Rhodes and Pergamon who also had interests in the area.

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