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Demosthenes led Athenians against the advance of PHilip II of Macedon, but failed to rally the

other city-states to join the fight, and eventually all of Greece fell to the Macedonian. Some

city-states, remembering the Delian League, may have been reluctant to support Athens. They

may have felt that Athens would once again take control of them if they were able to defeat

disarray that followed the Peloponnesian War, may have believed that the best option would be

Greece unified, but under the umbrella of a strong foreign power, rather than one of their own

small states. It s easy to argue that the failure of Demosthenes to manage the defeat of Philip

was for the best. After all, the result was Alexander, the expansion of Greece, and the

prosperity that brought and spread Hellenistic culture. The alternative would seem to be a

group of small city-states impoverished by war with a power such as Macedon, with a unity that

would eventually fail from infighting and the struggle to become a unified power with a unique

culture, it is doubtful that it would have had the depth and influence of the Hellenistic era

created by Demosthenes' failure.

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