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Philip's latest action prompts Demosthenes' famous rallying …
Years: 338BCE - 338BCE
Philip's latest action prompts Demosthenes' famous rallying call to Athens (reported by its author nearly a decade later in the speech On the Crown).
He urges sending an embassy to Thebes at this moment of danger for Greece as well as for Athens.
Phocion, a political opponent of Demosthenes, has urged a rattled Athens to seek accommodation with Philip, but Demosthenes succeeds in rallying the wavering Athenians to the anti-Macedonian cause in 338, when Athens and its longtime enemies, …
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- Thebes, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Boeotian League
- Athens, City-State of
- Athenian Empire or Confederacy, Second
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- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Macedon, Rise of
- Sacred War, Fourth (Amphissean War)
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Years: 338BCE - 338BCE
Locations
People
Groups
- Thebes, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Boeotian League
- Athens, City-State of
- Athenian Empire or Confederacy, Second
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Macedon, Rise of
- Sacred War, Fourth (Amphissean War)
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions