Topic summary
Second Macedonian War

War between Rome and Macedonia, 200–197 BC Second Macedonian WarPart of the Macedonian WarsThe campaigns and battles of the Second Macedonian WarDate200–197 BCLocationHellenistic GreeceResult Roman coalition victoryTerritorialchanges Macedonia gives up all possessions and client states in Orestis, Thessaly, southern Greece, Thrace and AnatoliaBelligerents Roman Republic Kingdom of Pergamon Rhodes Aetolian League (199-197 BC) Athens Athamania Kingdom of Dardania Illyrians Achaean League (198-197 BC) Sparta (197 BC) Supported by Ptolemaic kingdom MacedonBoeotian LeagueAcarnanian LeagueSupported bySeleucid empireCommanders and leaders Publius Sulpicius GalbaTitus Quinctius FlamininusAttalus IAgesimbrotusDamocritus of Aetolia Archedemus of AetoliaAmynander of AthamaniaBato of DardaniaPleuratus III Philip V of Macedon The Second Macedonian War (200–197 BC) was fought between Macedon, led by Philip V of Macedon, and Rome, allied with Pergamon, Rhodes, Athens, Athamania, Dardania, Illyria and since 199 BC, the Aetolian League. Philip V and the king of the Seleucid Empire Antiochus the Great had previously made a pact against the Ptolemaic kingdom (after the death of Ptolemy IV). Aft