Roman-Seleucid war

The Roman-Seleucid war, fought from 192 to 188 BC and also known as the Aetolian war, the Antiochene war or the Syrian war, pitted a coalition led by the Roman Republic against one led by the Seleucid king Antiochus III. The fighting ranged across southern mainland Greece, the Aegean Sea and Asia Minor. It grew out of a cold war that began in 196 BC, in which both powers competed for influence over small Greek city-states and held incompatible views of the Aegean: Rome treated Greece as its sphere and Asia Minor as a buffer, while the Seleucids treated Asia Minor as a core province and Greece as the buffer. After Antiochus was beaten at Thermopylae he withdrew across the Aegean, the Roman coalition won naval superiority, and the Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio pursued him into Asia Minor, where the Battle of Magnesia decided the war. The Peace of Apamea stripped the Seleucids of their lands beyond the Taurus Mountains, imposed a large indemnity, and left Rome the dominant power over the Greek states.