The Roman–Seleucid war, also called the Aetolian war, Antiochene war, Syrian war, and Syrian-Aetolian war was a military conflict between two coalitions, one led by the Roman Republic and the other le
Asia Minor after the war
Head, possibly a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, depicting Antiochus III of the Seleucid empire
This 18th century drawing depicts Flamininus announcing the freedom of the Greeks at the Isthmian Games in 196 BC.
Coin depicting Eumenes II of Pergamum. Eumenes was one of the key Roman allies during the war and aided greatly in the Roman coalition's victory at Magnesia.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman who was one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the greates
Roman–Seleucid war
…unclear and vitiated by their need for ratification – fell apart. Succeeded by the consul of 190 BC, Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Lucius' able legate Scipio Africanus, Glabrio returned to Rome and celebrated a triumph. That year, the Roman fleet under Gaius Livius won a battle off Corycus forcing Antiochus' fleet to…
Bust likely of Scipio Africanus (formerly identified as Sulla)
A Carthaginian coin depicting Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), one of Hannibal's younger brothers, wearing a diadem
Bronze bust dated mid-first century BC, formerly identified as Scipio Africanus, now thought to portray a priest of Isis
Antiochus sends his son to Scipio. Painting by Jean-Pierre Granger (c. 1800).