What happened to Greece after the Persian War?
After the Persian war, the city-states went on fighting against one another even more than before. Greece per se was just a geographical set of regions, not a nation, and certainly not unified. The only common points are the language (more or less with dialectal differences, and the culture/religion with the same gods and same customs. Yes, Athens knew her time of glory with a great empire on her own, around the Aegean sea. But the wars became such that someone had to do something. That someone was Philip II of Macedonia (sometimes said Macedon). First he fought against a panhellenic coalition quickly made up by Athens with new allies who were recent foes. He defeated this coalition in 338 B.C. in Cheronea, with the help of his son, the magnificent young Alexander. Philip managed to unify the Greeks within the agreements of the League of Corinth in 337 BC. It was indeed the first step toward loss of independence for the Greeks. Philip wants to use the league of Corinth, this Pan-hellen
