Introduction

Last week, Rome was drawn into the thick of Greek politics and emerged from its brief war with Philip of Macedon. The hero of the Second Macedonian War, Gaius Flaminius, had declared Greece free from foreign interference to the great joy of the proud Greeks. Trouble began in 195 BC when the Etonian League felt they had not received the rewards they deserved for all the help they had given the Romans. A faction of Greeks fed up with the Roman presence would look across the Aegean to the only other power in the Mediterranean who could possibly expel the Romans.