Achaean War

Date	146 BC
Location	Mainland Greece
Result	Roman victory
Territorial changes	Mainland Greece annexed by Rome

Belligerents

Roman Republic

Achaean League

Commanders and leaders

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus,
Lucius Mummius Achaicus

Aratus of Sicyon,
Diaeus

The Achaean War was an uprising by the Greek Achaean League, an alliance of Achaean and other Peloponnesian states in ancient Greece, against the Roman Republic around 146 BC, just after the Fourth Macedonian War. Rome defeated the League swiftly, and as a lesson, they destroyed the ancient city of Corinth. The war ended with Greece's independence taken away, and Greece became the Roman provinces of Achaea and Epirus.

The Roman Republic had developed close ties to the League of Achaeans through similar religious and military beliefs and a cooperation in the previous Macedonian War. But the ties were soon disturbed after a series of disputes and interference in the decision making of the league by the Romans, who insisted that Sparta be released from the protection and inclusion in the league. The Spartans had become increasingly opposed to the power that the League held, especially with their relations of the increasingly powerful Romans. The League had desecrated Spartan land, torn down their walls, and disrupted the traditional military educational systems of Spartan children. Regardless of the uncooperative actions that the Spartans took against the League, under the leadership of Aratus of Sicyon, the Greek confederacy chose to maintain an alliance with the disliked city of Sparta, and thus declared war on the more powerful Romans.

The Achaeans were aware that they were entering a suicidal war of defiance, as Rome had just soundly conquered Macedon, a much more powerful kingdom. The Romans won at Scarpheia, then conclusively outflanked them at the Battle of Corinth (146 BC). The Achaean league was then disbanded, Corinth and Patras were destroyed as punishment, and virtually all of mainland Greece became annexed by Rome.

References

Wilson, N. G. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 2006. Print. Google Books.
"Achaean League" A Dictionary of World History. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. York University. 25 October 2011

Ancient Roman wars

Wars of the Roman Republic	Roman–Etruscan Wars Roman–Latin wars Roman–Hernician wars Roman-Volscian wars Samnite Wars Pyrrhic War Punic Wars (First, Second, Third) Illyrian Wars (First, Second, Third) Macedonian Wars (First, Second, Third, Fourth) Roman–Seleucid War Aetolian War Galatian War Roman conquest of Hispania (First Celtiberian War, Lusitanian War, Numantine War, Sertorian War, Cantabrian Wars) Achaean War Jugurthine War Cimbrian War Servile Wars (First, Second, Third) Social War Sulla's civil wars (First, Second) Mithridatic Wars (First, Second, Third) Gallic Wars Caesar's invasions of Britain Caesar's Civil War End of the Republic (Post-Caesarian, Liberators', Sicilian, Fulvia's, Final)

Wars of the Roman Empire	Germanic Wars (Teutoburg, Marcomannic, Alemannic, Gothic, Visigothic) Wars in Britain Wars of Boudica Armenian War Civil War of 69 Jewish–Roman wars Domitian's Dacian War Trajan's Dacian Wars Parthian Wars Persian Wars Civil Wars of the Third Century Wars of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire

Military history

Ancient Greek wars

Mycenaean	Trojan War

Archaic	First Messenian War Lelantine War Second Messenian War First Sacred War Sicilian Wars

Classical	Greco-Persian Wars Aeginetan War Wars of the Delian League First Peloponnesian War Second Sacred War Samian War Peloponnesian War Phyle Campaign Corinthian War Boeotian War Wars of the Theban hegemony Theban–Spartan War Social War (357–355 BC) Third Sacred War Foreign War Rise of Macedon Wars of Alexander the Great

Hellenistic	Lamian War Wars of the Diadochi Seleucid–Mauryan war Pyrrhic War Syrian Wars Pyrrhus' invasion of the Peloponnese Chremonidean War Seleucid–Parthian wars Cleomenean War War against Lyctus Social War (220–217 BC) First Macedonian War Cretan War Second Macedonian War Roman–Seleucid War Aetolian War War against Nabis Galatian War Third Macedonian War Maccabean Revolt Fourth Macedonian War Achaean War Mithridatic Wars (First, Second, Third) Final War of the Roman Republic

Military history

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