Event from 188 BCE
Citations (1)
- A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years pp. 53-56 · open book
Rome’s eventual conquest of Greece and the Near East, still ruled by Seleucid descendants of one of Alexander the Great’s generals, was not planned: initially friendly relations gradually deteriorated until the Republic lurched into war with the Seleucid king Antiochos III from 192 to 188 BCE.