New Men and the Greek War Booty in the 2nd Century BC

Lee n a Pie t i 1 a-Cast re n vhe first t:11m.et:he Romans had come into confrlict with the Greek world was dur~ing the war they waged against Tarentum and Pyrrhus.After this war in 272 a treaty was concluded between the Romans and the Tarent'ines which was S1t:iH quite favourable ~towards the lat1ter.It was not before the Second Punic War that the Ro:m.ana:ttittude rto the conquered Greek c~ties changed: in 211 M. Claudius MarceHus iet his soldiers plunder Syracuse after a 1long siege, 1 and two years later the soldiers under the com~mand of Q. Fabius Maximus ptlundered Tarentum causing such damage that the c;ty never reaHy recovered. 2vhe first ha[ of the second century BC signified the high tide of ~the wars the Romans waged on aotual Greek soi 1 1.The first rime the Roma~ns came into contact wi1th the Greek seas was in 211, when M. VaJer~ius laevinus com,manded their Heet of 25 ships. 3He still seems to have been a real sa:i1or whose career included several other remarkable achievements: In 214 he commanded a fleet against PhiEp V along the I1Jyr1ian coast. 4As consul in 210 he conquered Agrigentum, thus compieting MarceUus' conquest of Sioi[y.5 In 208 he bea;t a Punic flee:t6 and in 205 he brought Magna Mater from Phrygi:an Pessinus to Rome. 7On his authority an agreement was rea:ched in 211 1 Liv.25,31,5-10.31,31,8. 2

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