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Destruction of Corinth (146 BC)
146 BC — Mummius burns Corinth, one of Greece’s greatest cities. The men are killed, the women and children sold, and Achaea becomes a Roman dependency. This is what Roman “liberation” has brought.
When 146 BC Type Site of memory Chapter Roman conquest of Greece (chapter 3 of Ancient Rome)Atlas The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 SITE OF MEMORY · THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME, 264 BC – AD 476 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 · The Metropolitan Museum: The Roman Republic · Natural Earth physical coastlines and rivers · Polybius, Histories 1: Sicily and the First Punic War
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Selected, combined, and reprojected by Maps of History; dated adjustments are recorded per layer.. CC BY 4.0 Department of Greek and Roman Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2000).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied Made with Natural Earth. Modern physical geography is a coastline/river reference, not evidence of ancient sovereignty.. Public domain Polybius, Histories, book 1 (Perseus).. Historical evidence citation; no prose or map copied The bequest of Pergamon uses its source outline at 133 BC. The dataset retains a separate kingdom until 127 BC.
Displayed geometry: -133 (s133); chapter framing: -146. The map shows the moment selected for the chapter, even when the chapter spans several events.
proxy: 144–127 BC Pergamene domain reference · reconstruction: 133 BC · reconstruction: 238 BC onward; modern shoreline reference · reconstruction: Modern physical shoreline reference · vector: -144 to -111 · vector: -144 to -127 · vector: -164 to -127 · vector: -164 to -67 · vector: -170 to -127 · vector: -188 to -111 · vector: -188 to -127 · vector: -197 to -111 · vector: -203 to -127 · vector: -230 to -92 · vector: -239 to -127 · vector: -630 to 337
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