# Perseus — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Perseus in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Perseus the Macedonian

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Last king of Macedon, defeated by the Romans at Pydna.

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