{"slug": "titus-quinctius-flamininus", "label": "Titus Quinctius Flamininus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Quinctius_Flamininus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349222", "qid": "Q349222", "description": "Roman censor 189 BC", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-228, -173], "span_label": ["229 BCE", "174 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Titus Quinctius Flaminius"], "related": [{"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "achaean-league", "label": "Achaean League", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "nabis-of-sparta", "label": "Nabis of Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pergamon", "label": "Pergamon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aetolian-league", "label": "Aetolian League", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "macedonia-ancient-kingdom", "label": "Macedonia (ancient kingdom)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-v-of-macedon", "label": "Philip V of Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucid-empire", "label": "Seleucid Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -228, "year_label": "229 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Titus Quinctius Flaminius, Roman consul and general (d. 174 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1205848400#Births", "title": "229 BC", "revid": 1205848400, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -197, "year_label": "198 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "After his election to the consulship, Titus Quinctius Flamininus is chosen to replace Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus as the leading Roman general in Macedonia. He then crosses into Macedonia with his army. Flamininus realizes that future peace depends on breaking the power of king Philip V of Macedon, not merely humbling him. He secures the backing of the Achaean League and then opens peace negotiations with Philip at Nicaea in Locris. Though peace proposals are submitted to the Roman Senate, the talks break down, and fighting resumes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698641#Roman_Republic", "title": "198 BC", "revid": 1352698641, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -196, "year_label": "197 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly gives a Roman army under proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus a decisive victory over Philip V of Macedon. In the Treaty of Tempe, the terms of the peace proposed by the Roman general and adopted by the Roman Senate specify that Philip V can retain his throne and control of Macedonia, but he has to abandon all the Greek cities he has conquered. Philip also has to provide to the Romans 1,000 talents as indemnity, surrender most of his fleet and provide hostages, including his younger son, Demetrius, who is to be held in Rome. The Aetolians propose that Philip V be ejected from his throne but Flamininus opposes this.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698626#Greece", "title": "197 BC", "revid": 1352698626, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -195, "year_label": "196 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "At the Isthmian Games at Corinth, the Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus proclaims that all Greeks are to be free and governed by their own laws. For this deed he is hailed in many Greek cities as a saviour and accorded homage alongside the gods.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172645#Roman_Republic", "title": "196 BC", "revid": 1354172645, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -194, "year_label": "195 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Gythium is fought between Sparta and a coalition of Rome, Rhodes, the Achaean League and Pergamum. As the port of Gythium is an important Spartan base, the allies decide to capture it before they advance inland to Sparta. The Romans and the Acheans are joined outside the city by the Pergamese and Rhodian fleets. The Spartans hold out; however, the proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus arrives with 4,000 extra men. Facing too great an army, the Spartans decide to surrender the city on the condition that the garrison can leave unharmed. As a result, Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, is forced to abandon the surrounding land and withdraw to the city of Sparta. Later that year, Sparta capitulates to the allies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115647#Greece", "title": "195 BC", "revid": 1300115647, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -193, "year_label": "194 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After checking the ambitions of Nabis, the tyrant of Sparta, the Roman forces under proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus finally withdraw from Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368091897#Greece", "title": "194 BC", "revid": 1368091897, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -192, "year_label": "193 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Eumenes II of Pergamum appeals to Rome for help against the Seleucid king Antiochus III who is threatening to conquer Greece. The Roman proconsul Titus Quinctius Flamininus supports the Roman championship of Greek autonomy in Anatolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1213018923#Greece", "title": "193 BC", "revid": 1213018923, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -191, "year_label": "192 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Achaeans respond to Sparta's renewed interest in recovering lost territory by sending an envoy to Rome with a request for help. In response, the Roman Senate sends the praetor Atilius with a navy, as well as an embassy headed by Titus Quinctius Flamininus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342604594#Greece", "title": "192 BC", "revid": 1342604594, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -190, "year_label": "191 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Manius Acilius Glabrio then turns his attention to the Aetolian League, which has persuaded Antiochus to declare war against Rome, and is only prevented from crushing them by the intercession of Titus Quinctius Flamininus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356019531#Roman_Republic", "title": "191 BC", "revid": 1356019531, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -182, "year_label": "183 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman statesman Titus Quinctius Flamininus is sent to the court of Prusias I, king of Bithynia, to demand the surrender of the former Carthaginian statesman and general Hannibal. When Hannibal finds out that Prusias is about to agree to the Roman demands and thus betray him, he poisons himself in the village of Libyssa in Bithynia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698344#Roman_Republic", "title": "183 BC", "revid": 1352698344, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -173, "year_label": "174 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Titus Quinctius Flamininus, Roman general and statesman whose skillful diplomacy has enabled him to establish a Roman protectorate over Greece (b. c. 227 BC) (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209269072#Deaths", "title": "174 BC", "revid": 1209269072, "section": "Deaths"}}]}