Battle of Pydna: Rome Destroys Macedonia, Greece Is Finished
Perseus had 44,000 men and the most feared infantry formation in the ancient world — the Macedonian phalanx. He lost anyway, in about an hour. Aemilius Paullus spotted one gap, one small break in the phalanx's alignment on uneven ground, and drove Romans straight through it. The whole formation collapsed from inside. Perseus fled, then surrendered, and was paraded through Rome in chains. His defeat didn't just end a war. It ended Macedonia as a power — forever. The phalanx, unbeaten for 150 years, never fought again.
June 22, 168 BC
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Roman Republic
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Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus
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Macedon
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Greece
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Roman Republic
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