Volume 21, Number 12 · July 18, 1974
The Historian's Skin
By Arnaldo Momigliano
Polybius
by F.W. Walbank
University of California, 201 pp., $8.50
On June 22, 168 BC, in about one hour, the Macedonian phalanx was destroyed near home, on the fields of Pydna, by the Roman legions. In the Greek East there was no longer any organized force that could check the winners. The old monarchy of Macedon was split into four republics, vassals of Rome; its ruling class was systematically uprooted. The inhabitants of Epirus, who had supported their neighbors, were sold into slavery, and their towns were destroyed.
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