Battle of Chaeronea
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Chaeronea (the battle) · the defeat · the disaster of Chaeronea
in the texts
Against Leocrates
The decisive battle in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Philip of Macedon, triggering the emergency decree Leocrates allegedly violated.
After the disaster of Chaeronea the Athenian people passed a decree forbidding persons to leave the city or to remove their wives or children.
After the battle of Chaeronea you all gathered hastily to the Assembly, and the people decreed that the women and children should be brought from the countryside inside the walls and that the generals should appoint any Athenians or other residents at Athens to defence duties as they thought fit.
Would any of them, remembering their contemporaries, comrades in arms at Chaeronea who shared the same dangers, absolve the man who has betrayed the graves they lie in?
Orations
A battle in which Alexander is credited with causing the victory despite his father's hesitation.
So it was with Alexander at first, so that they say he was the cause of the battle and the victory at Chaeronea, when his father shrank from the danger.