CLAS 203 Lecture 5: Historical Overview Cont'd
14 Sep 2016
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Hellenistic siege weapons: philip gradually got involved in greek affairs, certain greek cities would come to him to fight for them, some greek politicians were wary of this, as they believed philip was trying to take over greece. Demosthenes (384-322: a politician that suspected that philip"s true intentions was to conquer greece, after a series of events, there is eventually a war between macedonia, led by philip, and athens. The greek coalition was defeated by philip"s army, demosthenes lost. Is succeeded by alexander, later known to be alexander the great. The size of what is known as the greek world is now huge, and the polis are no longer the main players: alexander was the son of philip, and continued with what his father started. Invasion of the persian empire: also had to deal with a couple of revolts from the greeks taking advantage of philip"s death.
