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The Battle of Chaeronea: Philip II Crushes Greek Freedom
In 338 BCE, on the plain of Chaeronea in Boeotia, the destiny of Greece was decided in a single day. Philip II of Macedon, commanding his elite Companion cavalry and the revolutionary sarissa-wielding phalanx, faced a coalition of Athens, Thebes, and other city-states led by Demosthenes and the Sacred Band of Thebes. This episode unpacks the tactical innovations that gave Macedon its edge—the oblique advance, the use of hypaspists, and the devastating cavalry charge that broke the Greek line. We explore the aftermath: the League of Corinth, the forced unity under Macedonian hegemony, and the…
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