Olympias died in 316 BCE at a place called Pydna.

The Romans defeated the Macedonians at the Second battle of Pydna in 148 BCE. In response, the Achaean League in 146 BC mobilized for a new war against Rome in what is referred to as the Achaean War. When this failed as quickly as it started, the whole of Greece had come under Roman occupation.

The Romans won hundreds of battles in their 1,200 years of history. Important battles the Romans won included the Battle of Ilipa in 206 in southern Spain where the Romans defeated the Carthaginians and took over the Carthaginian Spanish territories , the Battle of Zama in 202BC where they defeated Hannibal, the battle of Pydna in 168 where they defeated the king of Macedon, the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC where they defeated the Cimbri, a Germanic people who was invading the empire the Battle of Alesia in 52 BC during the conquest of Gaul, the storming of Jerusalem in 70 AD, Trajan's battle of Sarmisegusta in 106 AD against the Dacians , the Battle of Naissus in 268 or 269 BC where Claudius II defeated the Goths, the Battle of Fano in 271 AD where Aurelian defeated the Alemanni, the Battle of Satala in 298 where Galerius defeated the Persians, and the Battle of Pollentia in 402 where Stilicho defeated Alaric I king of the Visigoths.

This is far from being a comprehensive list.

And in 80 BCE the Jewish King Alexander Jannaeus demolished the city 'because the inhabitants would not agree to adopt the national custom of the Jews' ie Convert to Judaism.

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