“The future
relations between the two peoples had been irrevocably fixed by Alexander’s
Anabasis, which destined them to work together in close co-operation as joint
rulers of the East, and eventually to be blended into one Nation.“
Max Cary, A History of the Greek World from 323-146 B.C. page 10
In 197 he
re-entered Thessaly and forced a battle on the field of Cynoscephalae. In this
encounter the Macedonian heavy infantry proved that in a solid front-to-front
charge not even the Roman legions could hold, but that, once thrown out of
order or taken in flank, it became helpless. While one Macedonian Phalanx
charged right home, another broke itself up by its own impetus and became an
easy prey to the enemy; and the victorious division, without cavalry support on
the flanks, was enfiladed and cut to pieces by the succcessful Roman wing
wheeling upon it. This was the first decisive victory of Romans over Greeks in a set battle on a large scale; but it
sufficed definitely to establish Roman ascendancy in Greece.
Max Cary, “A History of the Greek World from
323-146 B.C.”, page 191
A History of
the Greek World from 325 to 146 B.C.
by Cary Max ,publication date:1932
Description
A History
of the Greek World from 323 to 146 B.C. (1951) looks at the period of Greek
history from the Macedonian to the Roman conquests. It contains a narrative of
the political history of the Hellenistic states; a description of their
statecraft, war-craft and economic practice; and a summary of later Greek
achievement in the fields of art, literature, science, philosophy and religion.
