Dr Simon Elliott

They're dripping in wealth.

And suddenly...

They tapped on the Roma show and said, hello, mate.

The Roma's gone, oh.

Really interesting, that is.

And that's it.

That's the point.

That's the point when the draw happens.

And that ultimately, I think, leads to the end of the Roman Republic.

Very shortly after.

Okay.

So you get a series of four Macedonian Wars.

The first Macedonian War happens almost immediately after the end of the second Punic War.

Then you get the second Macedonian War.

Yeah, basically, if you're in Rome, you go down the Via Appia to Brindisi and then go across to... Oh, you sail across?

Yeah, go across to modern Albania.

Yeah, that's right.

And so you go, Albania is a Pyrrhus, and then you're into Macedonia itself.

So the second Macedonian war is a biggie, because it's when Philip V leads his field army, his pike phalanxers, and all the other sort of glamorous entities of a Hellenistic army.

The Romans hammer them at the Battle of Carno-Sopholo, the Battle of the Doghead, which is the name of Two Hills.