Andriscus

Andriscus was a Greek pretender who claimed to be Philip, a son of the last Antigonid king Perseus of Macedon, and who ruled Macedon for about a year as Philip VI. Ancient writers generally say he began life as a fuller from Adramyttium in western Anatolia. After the Seleucid king Demetrius I sent him to Rome, where the Senate judged him harmless and exiled him to an Italian city, he escaped, gathered backing mainly from Thrace and took Macedon from the Roman client republics, crowning himself at Pella around 149 BC. Rome answered with force in the Fourth Macedonian War. After early successes against a Roman legion he was defeated and captured by the praetor Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, held for two years, shown in Metellus' triumph in 146 BC and then executed. His revolt ended Macedonian independence and led Rome to create the province of Macedonia.