was swiftly defeated, and, as an object lesson, Rome utterly destroyed the city of Corinth in 146 BC, the same year that Carthage was destroyed. After nearly a century of constant crisis management in Greece, which always led back to internal instability and war when Rome pulled out, Rome decided to divide Macedonia into two new Roman provinces, Achaea and Epirus. See also Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 30 References Sources Further reading 3rd-century BC conflicts 2nd-century BC conflicts 3rd century BC in the Roman Republic 2nd century BC in the Roman Republic Wars involving Antigonid Macedon Wars involving the Roman Republic