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	History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part XI, by Risto Stefov
		Andriscus claimed to be Philip VI, son of Perseus by Laodice, Seleucus IV’s daughter who was also Demetrius I’s sister.
		In 153 BC, with Demetrius I’s help, Andriscus went to Rome to plead his case for the Macedonians but the Senate was not interested in a hearing.
		When he was ready Andriscus advanced on Macedonia from Thrace and, after two battles in 149 BC, took control of Macedonia.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/stefov/stefov28.html (8448 words)

	149 B.C. - events and references
		Andriscus crosses to Thrace, where he is welcomed by a chieftain called Teres and begins to collect an army.
		Andriscus arrived in the area only three or four months before he gained control of Macedonia (Polyb_36.10'4).
		Andriscus is driven back from Thessaly by the Romans and their allies.
	www.attalus.org /bc2/year149.html (432 words)

	Livy: the Periochae of Books 48-50
		Andriscus, qui se Persei filium, regis quondam Macedoniae, ingenti adseveratione mentiretur, Romam missus.
		Andriscus, who pretended persistently that he was the son of Perseus, the former king of Macedonia, was sent to Rome.
		The noble women Publilia and Licinia were accused of murdering their husbands, former consuls; after the hearing, they assigned real estate as bail to the praetor, but were executed by a decision of their relatives.
	www.livius.org /li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae048.html (3376 words)

	Fourth Macedonian War
		In 149 BC, Andriscus, a pretender to the throne (which was abolished with Perseus) claimed to be a grandson of Philip V and son of Perseus.
		The Senate, realizing that it was time to put a final stop to this unstable situation and with new trouble brewing in Carthage, authorized a new army commissioned under the Praetor Quintus Caecilius Metellus.
		Andriscus was forced out of the region, his army destroyed.
	www.unrv.com /empire/fourth-macedonian-war.php (763 words)

	3854 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andriscus, or the false Philip, in Macedonia, fought with Juventius the Roman praetor who was sent with a legion against him.
		There he persuaded the commissioners, who the senate had sent to receive information of the affairs in Asia, that before they went there, they would go to the commanders of the Achaians and order them to stop the war they were fighting with the Lacedemonians.
		Andriscus brought up his army a little beyond Pydna.
	bennieblount.org /Online/Ussher/10.htm (23348 words)

	Philip, a False Claimant (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A serf named Andriscus, he succeeded in passing himself off as Philip, the deceased king of Macedonia, resurrected from the dead.
		The false king was then taken to Rome and ridiculed in a triumphal procession, the probable subject of this miniature.
		The text explains that Andriscus was raised from a base state to that of royalty by a turn of fortune but ended by falling to a state even lower than his humble origins.
	www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o112353.html (148 words)

	Index of names: An (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		152/15 ccounts of the early life of Andriscus, who claims to be a son of
		149/22 Greek reactions to Andriscus' revolt and the Punic War.
		148/17 Andriscus is successful in a cavalry battle.
	www.attalus.org /names/An.html (5708 words)

	Fourth Macedonian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The power vacuum fostered by the Romans was not ultimately conducive to stability.
		In 149 BC there appeared a new Macedon pretender to the throne, Andriscus, calling himself Philip and claiming to be the grandson of Philip V and son of Perseus.
		He was able to enter the Macedonian republics without serious resistance, defeating the local militias and re-uniting Macedon to a single state.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /macedonian4.htm (432 words)

	Andriscus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Andriscus (348 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 691 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is referred to by Varro (L. vi.
		149, who was defeated and slain in battle in Macedonia by the usurper Andriscus (Pseudophilippus).
		A beautiful youth, to whom Catullus has addressed several of his poems.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1799.html (915 words)

	149-146. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Romans organized a small area around Carthage as the province of Africa but left the rest to the sons of Massinissa (d.
		A pretended son of Perseus, Andriscus, provoked the war but was defeated by Q. Caecilius Metellus.
		Against Roman orders, the Achaeans made war on Sparta.
	www.bartleby.com /67/234.html (621 words)

	Seleucid Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Philip took part in many battles against his own people and was indeed captured by them and heard of no more.
		Shortly after a Macedonian guerilla leader by the name of Andriscus arose and united the Macedonian and northern Greeks and they threw off allegiance to Rome.
		Eventually the Romans who were hardpressed elsewhere was forced to conceded defeat to this Andriscus who was found to be none other than Philip Severus the son of King Perseus (now dead) and former Roman senator.
	www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au /home/spotter/Seleucid_Empire.html (1651 words)

	Macedon -> Wars with Rome on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His successor, Perseus (reigned 179-168 BC), foolishly aroused Roman fears and lost his kingdom in the Third Macedonian War (171-168 BC).
		Later (150-148 BC) a pretender, Andriscus, tried to revive a Macedonian kingdom.
		This time Macedonia was annexed to Roman territory and became (146 BC) the first Roman province.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/macedon_warswithrome.asp (418 words)

	Articles - Perseus of Macedon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Antigonid kingdom was dissolved, and replaced with four republics.
		Andriscus of Macedon broke off the Roman rule for about a year, but was defeated in 148 BC by the Romans.
		In 146 BC, the four republics were dissolved, and Macedon officially became the Roman province of Macedonia.
	lastring.com /articles/Perseus_of_Macedon?mySession=ba592bea53ff2a61... (299 words)

	andriscus - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word andriscus:
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		ANDRISCUS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	onelook.com /?w=andriscus (78 words)

	Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus
		He was a brilliant general that fought in the Third Macedonic War and would soon play a pivotal role in the Fourth.
		The fourth Macedonic War broke out because an adventurer, Andriscus, claimed to be descendent from the Macedonian dynasty, and was able to enter the Macedonian republic without serious resistance.
		He was successful enough in raising an army to defeat the first Roman force sent against him in 149 under the command of the praetor Publius Iuventius Thalna (who was killed).
	www.unrv.com /bio/metellus-macedonicus.php (462 words)

	Macedonian Heritage - Jewish Community of Thessaloniki
		After the defeat of Perseus, the king of Macedonia, at Pydna in 168 BC, Thessaloniki became the capital of one of the four Roman districts (regiones) in the area.
		In the wake of the failure of the Andriscus revolt (149 BC), Macedonia was proclaimed a Roman Province (Provincia).
		Its capital was at Thessaloniki, which rapidly grew to be the largest city in Macedonia, and possibly in Greece.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Contributions/20010704_Nar.html (10023 words)

	History of Macedonia
		Then, when their number had dwindled to three hundred, and their unjust detention had so exasperated them that a rash and reckless policy might be expected from their return to power, Rome suddenly released the remnant and sent them back to their country.
		The rebellion of Andriscus, a pretended son of Perseus, in Macedonia (B.C. 149 to 148), caused a brief delay ; but in B.C. 146, four years after the return of the exiles, war was actually declared.
		Metellus first, and then Mummius, defeated the forces of the League; Critolaus fell in battle; Diaeus slew himself; Corinth, where the remnant of the Achaean army had taken refuge, was taken and sacked, and the last faint spark of Grecian independence was extinguished.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/Rawlinson.html (11840 words)

	148 B.C. - events and references
		An Achaean army, led by Damocritus, attacks Sparta.
		General comments on the brief war against Andriscus.
		Metellus captures Andriscus; end of the rebellion in Macedonia.
	www.attalus.org /bc2/year148.html (357 words)

	Livy: the Periochae of Books 51-55
		This Lucius Mummius was a selfless man: none of the works of art and decorations that had been in "rich Corinth", entered his house.
		Quintus Caecilius Metellus celebrated a triumph over Andriscus, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus over Carthage and Hasdrubal.
		In Hispania, Viriathus (who first changed from a shepherd into a hunter, then into a bandit, and soon into the leader of an army) occupied all of Lusitania, routed the army of praetor Marcus Vetilius and captured him, after which praetor Caius Plautius fought without any luck.
	www.livius.org /li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae051.html (1987 words)

	Total War Center Forums - Fellow Andriscus and his veteran thracians retreat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Total War Center Forums - Fellow Andriscus and his veteran thracians retreat
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	www.twcenter.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-1361.html (299 words)

	Total War Center Forums - Thracia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The army commanded by Andriscus: (Advancing deep into the german territory with king Burebista's army)
		The army commanded by Andriscus: (Will be back in thracia by turn 12)
		The army commanded by Andriscus: (All armies have a morale boost (S.Mount)
	www.twcenter.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-608.html (721 words)

	ANDRISCUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - ANDRISCUS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/ANC_APO/ANDRISCUS.html (245 words)

	Ancient coins of Macedon
		Revolt of Andriscus; Amphaxitis; Beroea; Bottiaea Emathiae; Dium; Edessa; Heracleia Sintica; Pella; Phila (?); Scotussa; Stobi; Thessalonica.
		239) for coins issued in the following year, 149-148, during the revolt of Andriscus-tetradrachms of the Roman Legatus reading LEG., which, on the victory of Andriscus, were restruck, some merely without the letters LEG, and others with the types of Philip V, presumptive grandfather of the pretender, and the legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ.
		After B.C. For the coins struck at Amphipolis and at Thessalonica by the Quaestors L. Fulcinnius and G. Publilius (148-146), and, later, by the Praetor L. Julius Caesar (93-92), by the Quaestor Aesillas, and the Legatus pro quaestore L. Bruttius Sura (92-88), see below under Macedonia, a Roman Province (p.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/macedon.html (8124 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Helmeted head of the hero Perseus, harpa over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield; shield decorated with seven six-pointed stars within double crescents / BASILEWS FILIPPOU, club within wreath.
		Mamroth -; SNG Ashmolean -; SNG Fitzwilliam 2343 (Philip VI Andriscus); Pozzi 2107 (Philip VI Andriscus).
		Online auction number 40 closed October 22, 2001.
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/macedonia/kings/philip_V/SNGFitz_2343.txt (93 words)

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