BATTLE OF CHAERONEA

CHAERONEA, GREECE 3 AUGUST 338 BCE

Murray Dahm

The Battle of Chaeronea was one of the most decisive in the ancient world – it decided the fate of Greece. The country’s future rested on two of its hitherto greatest military powers: Athens and Thebes. The result of Chaeronea was, however, to be a crushing victory for Macedonia that kept all of Greece compliant to Macedonian will for the next 15 years – this in turn allowed Alexander to embark on his unprecedented conquest of the Persian Empire in 334 BCE. For such an important engagement we, frustratingly, do not have much surviving source material on it; our best sources for the period are lost and we are left with only summaries and anecdotes. What is more, the historians of Alexander, of which there are many, tend to rush…

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