Field

1. No Spartans fought on the field of Chaeronea. (Web site)

League

1. The victory of Philip at Chaeronea in 338 finally destroyed the league. (Web site)

Father

1. He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea. (Web site)

Cleopatra

1. But not too long after the defeat of the Greeks at Chaeronea, the royal family split apart when Philip married Cleopatra, a Macedonian girl of high nobility. (Web site)

Fortified Town

1. Britannica online encyclopedia article on Chaeronea (ancient town, Greece), in ancient Greece, fortified town on Mt.

Alexander

1. During the ensuing Battle of Chaeronea, Philip commanded the right, and Alexander the left wing, accompanied by a group of Philip's trusted generals. (Web site)

Plutarch

1. During the wedding banquet, he prayed (according to Plutarch of Chaeronea) that Cleopatra might produce a legitimate son and heir to the Macedonian throne.

Decisive Battle

1. The Theban contingent lost the decisive battle of Chaeronea and along with it every hope of reassuming control over Greece. (Web site)

Greek City-States

1. The decisive battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC brought all the Greek city-states except Sparta under Philip's leadership.

Macedonian Army

1. At the battle of Chaeronea in 338, the Macedonian army destroyed the united Greek army, and put an end to Greek freedom and ancient Greek history.

Athenians

1. According to Polybius, the only thing the Athenians eventually got by their opposition to Philip was the defeat at Chaeronea. (Web site)

Athens

1. He was sent to Athens as ambassador in 346 and negotiated peace with the Athenians after Chaeronea. (Web site)
2. The eventual result was the establishment of Macedonian hegemony over central Greece (including Athens) after the Battle of Chaeronea (338).

Thebes

1. In 338 BC, Alexander fought under his father at the decisive Battle of Chaeronea against the mainland city-states of Athens and Thebes. (Web site)
2. After Chaeronea, Philip inflicted a harsh punishment upon Thebes, but made peace with Athens on very lenient terms. (Web site)
3. Thebes and Athens met him at Chaeronea in full force; with contingents from Corinth, Phocis, and Achaea. (Web site)

Battle

1. These forces defeated the last major hoplite army, at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), after which Athens and its allies joined the Macedonian empire. (Web site)
2. In 338 BC the armies of Philip II defeated Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea, effectively limiting Athenian independence. (Web site)
3. At the Battle of Chaeronea the Greeks were defeated and Alexander displayed his bravery by destroying the elite Greek force, the Theban Secret Band. (Web site)

Army

1. Cornelius Sulla defeated the army of King Mithridates in two battles - at Chaeronea and Orhomene.

Greece

1. Decisively defeating an allied army of Thebes and Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), he became de facto hegemon of all of Greece. (Web site)
2. The allies met the Macedonians at the Battle of Chaeronea and were decisively defeated, leaving Philip and the Macedonians the unquestioned master of Greece.
3. His decisive day at Chaeronea came, in a sense, because his true policy in Greece had failed, thanks partly to Demosthenes.

Orchomenus

1. But in 86 BC he lost two decisive battles to Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Battle of Chaeronea and Battle of Orchomenus) owing to poor training of Pontic troops.

Sulla

1. Meanwhile, Sulla defeated Mithridates in the East and in 86 BC captured Athens after the battles of Chaeronea and Orchomenus.
2. With Greece essentially back in control, Sulla moved to engage the army of Mithridates at Chaeronea. (Web site)

Archelaus

1. At the Battle of Chaeronea, Sulla inflicted horrible casualties on Archelaus, who nevertheless retreated and continued to raid Greece with the Pontic fleet.

Greeks

1. The Macedonian "barbarian" defeated Greece at the battle of Chaeronea in August 338 BC and appointed himself "Commander of the Greeks".
2. On August 2, 338 BC, the Macedonians defeated the Greeks at Chaeronea in central Greece and conquered their country. (Web site)
3. The Battle of Chaeronea where the Macedonians defeat the Greeks on August 2, 338 BC, marks an end of Greek history and the beginning of the Macedonian Era. (Web site)

Philip

1. In 338, the Greeks unified to prevent Philip from penetrating southern Greece, but the Macedonians defeated the Greeks at the battle at Chaeronea. (Web site)
2. These Greeks had joined the Persians in the years following the defeat of the Greek army by Philip II at Chaeronea. (Web site)
3. Isocrates committed suicide (according to tradition) after the defeat of Athens by Philip II of Macedon at Chaeronea.

Boeotia

1. As Philip marched south, he was blocked near Chaeronea, Boeotia by the forces of Athens and Thebes. (Web site)
2. The Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), fought near Chaeronea, in Boeotia, was the greatest victory of Philip II of Macedon. (Web site)
3. Boeotia, therefore, was the scene of various important battles- Plataea, Leuctra, Coronea, and Chaeronea. (Web site)

Thebans

1. Having defeated an alliance of Thebans and Athenians at the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, he created and led the League of Corinth. (Web site)
2. Young Alexander commanded the Macedonian left wing at Chaeronea and annihilated the famous Sacred Band of the Thebans.

Chaeronea

1. The following year, he captured Athens, but Archelaus evacuated Piraeus, and landed in Boeotia, where Sulla defeated him at the Battle of Chaeronea.
2. Eventually, the Greeks under the efforts of Athens and Demosthenes decided to face Philip in the battle of Chaeronea.
3. In August 338, the Macedonian king Philip defeated an army of Athenians and Thebans on the plain of Chaeronea, a town in Central Greece. (Web site)

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