GREECE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC

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