Cynoscephalae 197 BC winter and featuring ribbon markers and

and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges

which would achieve even greater notoriety a few years later courtesy of Jack the Ripper

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Cynoscephalae 197 BC winter and featuring ribbon markers andA fascinating, illustrated study of how the Roman Republican legions defeated the Macedonian army's much vaunted phalanxes. The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the Roman Republic rising in its place as the pre eminent power in the Greek East. At Cynoscephalae, the proud Macedonian kingdom of Antigonid monarch Philip V