Titus Quinctius Flamininus

Titus Quinctius Flamininus (c. 229–174 BC) was a Roman general and philhellene politician who commanded Roman forces in the Second Macedonian War. Elected consul in 198 BC at only thirty years of age—bypassing the traditional cursus honorum—Flamininus was entrusted with expelling King Philip V of Macedon from Greece.

In 197 BC, Flamininus engaged Philip's army at the Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly, where the superior flexibility of Roman maniples famously outmaneuvered and destroyed the rigid Macedonian phalanx. At the Isthmian Games of 196 BC in Corinth, Flamininus shocked the Greek world by proclaiming that all Greek poleis were henceforth free, untaxed, and autonomous, earning divine honors from Greek cities.