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”