Chaeronea

Hellenism had been the product of the free life of the Greek city-state, and after Chaeronea the great days of the city-state were past.

The victory of Philip at Chaeronea in 338 finally destroyed the league.

Much has been made of his defective accounts of the tyrants and the Macedonian empire, and his opinion that Greek history ceased to be interesting or instructive after Chaeronea.

The bulk of the army that defeated Mardonius at Plataea came from the Peloponnese; at Chaeronea no Peloponnesian state was represented.

It was not, indeed, the old native worship of the valley of the Nile which won such an empire over cultivated intellects from Chaeronea to the Thames.