Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Titus Quinctius Flamininus (228 - 174) is a politician and a Roman general .
It is useful like military powerful orator in the second Punic War, and in 205 is named propretor with Tarente. It is municipal official in Rome in 203, then Questeur in 199. It becomes Consul in 198, although only 30 years old, that is to say three years before the lawful age to be elected with this function.
It is then selected to succeed Publius Sulpicius Galba as general-in-chief of the Roman armies in the Second war Macedonian. It drives out Philippe V of Macedonia of Greece, then, whereas its consulate comes to a end, undertakes to negotiate peace. It is then extended in its command, which enables him to continue the war until its victorious conclusion with Cynoscéphales in Thessalie (197). Forced to go, Philippe V must return all the territories which it had conquered on the Greek cities and to pay in Rome a fine of 1000 talent S. Flamininus does not give however satisfaction to the enemies of Macedonia, as the Étoliens which wished to see this dismembered kingdom.
In 196, Flamininus goes to the isthmian Jeux to Corinthe where he proclaims the freedom of the Greek cities. Achieved Hellénophone, it is an admiror of the Greek culture, and the Greeks accommodate it as a liberator: currencies are struck with its effigy, and it is the object of a worship in certain cities. With its Greek allies and Macedonia, Flamininus plunders Sparte, before turning over to triumph in Rome with 1200 Roman slaves and Italian who had been captured during the Second Punic War and sold in Greece.
When Eumène II of Pergame calls of them in Rome in its argument against the king Séleucide Antiochos III, the senate sends Flamininus to negotiate with him in 192 and to prevent it not to interfere with the freedom of the Greeks. These negotiations are a failure, and Rome is soon in war with Antiochos, which it demolishes with the Thermopyles in 191.
In 183, Flamininus is again sent on mission diplomatic, this time near the king Prusias Ier of Bithynie near which took refuge Hannibal: this last prefers to commit suicide rather than to be delivered to the Romans.
The end of the lifetime of Flamininus is obscure: he probably dies towards 174.
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