Roman Greece

Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) refers to the period of ancient Greece (roughly the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece) as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically, from the Roman Republic's conquest of mainland Greece in 146 BC until the division of the Roman Empire in late antiquity. It covers the periods when Greece was dominated first by the Roman Republic and then by the Roman Empire.

The provincial subdivision of Roman Greece The Roman Republic had been steadily gaining control of mainland Greece in the Macedonian Wars with the Fourth Macedonian War ending in 148 BC with the final defeat of Macedonia. Two years later the Roman era began with the Corinthian defeat in the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC.