Greek attitudes to Rome from Pre Macedonian wars to conquest of Greece and Selucids?

[Archon of Thessaly]

I've recently been reading up on my Second Macedonian wars up until the fall of the Seleucid empire, and how Rome was able to dominate and absorb the numerous Hellenic Kingdoms and leagues.
The question I've been wondering is exactly how the notoriously snooty Greeks reacted to Rome prior to conquest and during their occupation ( so 212-146 BC.) Did any Greek rulers recognize Rome as a serous threat? How did Many Greeks regarded Rome as a potential allies? And what were Greek reactions to Romes rise and defeat of the all mighty Carthaginians?

 

[Cuāuhtemōc]

Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt had close relations from the get go. They provided extra supplies of grain to the Romans during the Second Punic War when its traditional sources of it (ie Sicily) were compromised in the fighting.

 

[Archon of Thessaly]

On a related note, any useful sources on Roman-Hellenic relations ( preferably primary and not just Polybius?)

 

[LSCatilina]

Two words on early Greek perception of Romans, until the IInd century.

Initially, Greek vision of Roma was quite negative : barely hellenized Barbarians that happened to have taken on Greek city-states in Italy, not that different from other Italian (if not Italic) peoples before, as Osques, Sabellians, Apulians, Bruttians, etc.
Rome is first seen as the continuation of the struggles between hinterland peoples and coastal Greek cities (Alexander of Epirus is only the best known intervention on this regard).

On this matter, Carthage had a relatively better reputation, even if it was frowned upon due to Carthage's history in Western Mediterranean (especially in Sicily) with Greek presence.
You had an actual hellenic faction in Carthage (even outside the hellenic features present in Carthagian institutions and culture, such as their army) for geopolitical and inner policies matters, which didn't existed as such in Rome before their conflicts with their rival.

Romans really had to jury-rig a philohellenism during the Second Punic War, first as a propaganda matter ("we're respectful of gods, oaths, and totally are closer from you"; while creating the myth of Carthagians being the late mirror of Phoenicians and traditional ennemies of Hellenism), then as an identity matter.