Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 Sources and their uses
- 2 Sparta as victor
- 3 Persia
- 4 The Corinthian War
- 5 Sicily, 413–368 B.C.
- 6 The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
- 7 Thebes in the 360s B.C.
- 8 Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
- 9 Regional surveys II: the West and North
- 10 Society and economy
- 11 The polis and the alternatives
- 12 Greek culture and science
- 13 Dion and Timoleon
- 14 Macedon and north-west Greece
- 15 Macedonian hegemony created
- 16 Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
- 17 Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
- 18 Epilogue
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 1: Greece and Western Asia Minor
- Map 9: Egypt
- Map 20: Alexanders campaigns
- References
17 - Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- 1 Sources and their uses
- 2 Sparta as victor
- 3 Persia
- 4 The Corinthian War
- 5 Sicily, 413–368 B.C.
- 6 The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
- 7 Thebes in the 360s B.C.
- 8 Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
- 9 Regional surveys II: the West and North
- 10 Society and economy
- 11 The polis and the alternatives
- 12 Greek culture and science
- 13 Dion and Timoleon
- 14 Macedon and north-west Greece
- 15 Macedonian hegemony created
- 16 Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
- 17 Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories
- 18 Epilogue
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
- Map 1: Greece and Western Asia Minor
- Map 9: Egypt
- Map 20: Alexanders campaigns
- References
Summary
MAINLAND GREECE IN ALEXANDER'S REIGN
THE DOMINANCE OF THE CORINTHIAN LEAGUE, 336–330 B.C.
During Alexander's reign the Greek world was controlled by the political system established after Chaeronea, which modern scholars have conveniently labelled the Corinthian League. This was primarily an alliance under the leadership of the Macedonian king, in which all states which had individual treaties with Macedon were organized in a single structure, directed to the war against Persia. The corollary of alliance was peace. All contracting states committed themselves to a wide-ranging common peace, affirming freedom and autonomy for all and renouncing subversion of any participating government. The implementation of these two general aims was in the hands of a council (synedrion) to which all states in the alliance sent representatives. The council made general enactments about the war, prohibiting service under the Persian King, and it policed the common peace, with the ultimate power to declare war against any transgressor, a war in which all contracting states were obliged by oath to participate. It might even act as a court of arbitration, ruling on disputes between member states before they endangered the peace (Tod no. 179). But the executive power was vested in the hegemon, the Macedonian king whose monarchy all states were bound to uphold. Inevitably the system would be geared to Macedonian interests. Sympathetic regimes could expect the support of the synedrion, whereas, if a state antagonistic to the Macedonian king suffered a change of government, it was unlikely that complaints would be effectively voiced.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. 846 - 875Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994
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