The Carthaginian, Punic, Gallic, and other wars …
Years: 167BCE - 167BCE
The Carthaginian, Punic, Gallic, and other wars waged by Rome have yielded enormous numbers of enslaved people, producing a slave population eclipsing any in earlier history.
The Romans of this age devastate the artistic treasures of Greece, rob temples and public buildings, decimate the population and bring many Greeks to Rome as slaves.
Aemilius Paulus, the victor of the Battle of Pydna in Greece in 168 BCE, is said to have sold one hundred an fifty thousand Greeks to Rome as slaves in a single market (according to Plutarch), all by himself on a single day in the year 167.
