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Group: Northern Rhodesia
People: Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)
Topic: Pydna, Battle of
Location: Abila > Raphana Jordan

Pydna, Battle of

Years: 168BCE - 168BCE

The Battle of Pydna in 168 BCE between Rome and the Macedonian Antigonid dynasty sees the further ascendancy of Rome in the Hellenic/Hellenistic world and the end of the Antigonid line of kings, whose power traces back to Alexander the Great.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)