POTENTIAL ESSAY QUESTION:
For all their supposed love of freedom, the Greeks in the period following the Peloponnesian war did not behave in a manner at all appropriate to free men, and it is not surprising that the Greeks soon lost their freedom. Comment.
POTENTIAL ID'S:
THERAMENES, AGESILAOS, EPAMINONDAS, DEMOSTHENES, PHILIP OF MACEDON, CHAERONEA
I. Introduction: the value/cost of freedom
II. Changed nature of warfare
III. Breakdown of old moral order
IV. Example: Athens
A. Thirty tyrants (Critias vs. Theramenes)
B. Civil War in Athens
V. Agesilaos: Spartan hegemony
VI. War between Corinth/Sparta
VII. King's Peace (387)
IX. Theban hegemony: Epaminondas
A. Leuctra
B. Mantinaea
X. Rise of Macedon: Philip
A. Strengthening of Macedon
B. Sacred Wars
C. Opposition to Philip (Demosthenes)
D. Chaeronea (338)
E. Philip unifies Greece