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What event blinded the major Greek states to the threat from Macedonia?
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After the Peloponnesian war, the city states were dishevelled. This gave the opportunity for Philip II to build a professional army, innovate his fighting equipment and strategies and build his wealth. He then proceeded to secure his northern borders against foreign threat and begin to work uniting the Greeks into one nation that could be used to combat the might of Persia. He used many tactics, some diplomatic, some subversive and some with outright force. Athens held the place of hegemony among the Greeks, and the orator Demosthenes, who had a personal grudge against Philip for snubbing him at the Macedonian court, tried to warn the Athenians of Philips intent to take the leadership of Greece.
he warned:
[10] When, Athenians, will you take the necessary action? What are you waiting for? Until you are compelled, I presume. But what are we to think of what is happening now? For my own part I think that for a free people there can be no greater compulsion than shame for their position. Or tell me, are you content to run round and ask one another, "Is there any news today?" Could there be any news more startling than that a Macedonian is triumphing over Athenians and settling the destiny of Hellas?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
As the eminent historian J. B. Bury writes:
As the hegemony or first place among Greek states had passed successively from Athens to Sparta, and to Thebes, so now it passed to Macedon. The statement that Greek liberty perished on the plain of Chaeronea is as true or as false as that it perished on the field of Leuctra or the strand of the Goat's River.Whenever a Greek state became supreme, that supremacy entailed the depression of some states and the dependency or subjection of others. Athens was reduced to a secondary place by Macedon, and Thebes fared still worse; but we must not forget what Sparta, in the day of her triumph, did to Athens, or the more evil things which Thebes proposed.
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