Philip II of Macedon settles the affairs of Greece after his victory at the battle of Chaeronea.
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==================About the sources====================
None of surviving ancient works deals with Philip settlements directly, these needs to be pieced together from various scanty sources.
The best reconstruction can be done when it comes to Athens, since quite a few speeches of contemporary orators survived who mention the events, also Moralia(especially) and Plutarch comes helpful.
Writing the script I heavily relied on Carl's Roebuck “The Settlements of Philip II with the Greek States in 338 B.C.” which is the best paper on the subject. It is in fact so good that you can't really find any other paper dealing in detail with these settlements (since there was no need of revisiting the subject). Other historians like Ian Worthington just redirect to Carl Roebuck (Waldemar Heckel also recommended it).
I've also used popular history books by Ian Worthington, I think “Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece” is really good. The reference list (foot notes) helped me navigate through speeches of athenian orators (these are generally not as fun to read as ancient historians).
The list of Philip's reasons to seek peace and Philip's peace terms are by Ian Worthington.
Ancient sources:
Aelian, Varia Historia
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon
[Demades], On twelve years
[Demosthenes], Against Aristogeiton
[Demosthenes], Against Aristogeiton 2
Demosthenes, On the Crown
Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History
Hyperides, Against Athenogenes
Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus
Lucian, How to write history
Lycurgus, Against Leocrates
Pausanias, Description of Greece
Plutarch, Life of Alexander
Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes
Plutarch, Life of Phocion
[Plutarch], Moralia
Polybius, Histories
Strabo, The Geography
Modern Sources:
Carl Roebuck, “The Settlements of Philip II with the Greek States in 338 B.C.” (1948)
Ian Worthington, “Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece” (2012)
Ian Worthington
, “By the spear” (2014)
M. B. Sakellariou, „Panhellenism: From concept to policy” (1980)
J.E. Atkinson
, “Macedon and Athenian politics in the period 338 to 323 BC” (1981)
George Cawkwell, “Philip and Athens” (1980)
============= Credits ===================
Narration by Ethan Weare
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