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Major conflict338 BCE

Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)

Chaeronea, Boeotia, central Greece

Estimated casualties

1.0K – 3.0Kestimated dead

Over 1,000 Athenians killed and ~2,000 captured; the Theban Sacred Band was annihilated (254 of 300 fell). Total figures approximate.

SOURCEAncient sources (Diodorus) summarized on Wikipedia

Philip II of Macedon, with his son Alexander commanding a wing, crushed a coalition of Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes in Boeotia. The victory established Macedonian hegemony over Greece and ended the era of the independent Greek polis.

Belligerents2

  • Macedon
  • Greek coalition (Athens, Thebes and allies)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
  2. Livius.org (Jona Lendering)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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