Scipio Africanus: Difference between revisions

 

== Later life ==

 

=== Censorship and second consulship ===

 

=== War with Antiochus ===

 

In 192&nbsp;BC, Rome declared war on Antiochus,{{sfn|Errington|1989|p=283}} who – after a cold war with the Romans starting from the close of the [[Second Macedonian War]] through to 193&nbsp;BC – had invaded Greece.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Griffith |first1=G T |last2=Sherwin-White |first2=S M |last3=van der Spek |first3=R J |chapter=Antiochus (3) III |date=2012 |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-505 |title=Oxford Classical Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.505 |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5 }}</ref> Antiochus' initial push into Greece was met with little enthusiasm by the locals, who were well-treated in a peaceful and largely open interstate system in the aftermath of the Roman proclamation of Greek freedom. It did not help that the cities that he did take had to be taken by force.{{sfn|Errington|1989|p=283}} The consul of 191&nbsp;BC, [[Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC)|Manius Acilius Glabrio]], arrived in the spring and promptly defeated Antiochus at the [[Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC)|Battle of Thermopylae]] – Antiochus lost the battle and was forced back across the Aegean to [[Ephesus]] within six months of the war's start.{{sfn|Errington|1989|p=284}}