Modern historians about Macedonia – Ernst Badian

 

“Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis,Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of a United Greece against the barbarians”

Ernst Badian,“The Cambringe history of Iran”,Volume 2,page 421 

In autumn 338 Philip won the battle of Chaeronea against Thebes and Athens, With no one left who could hopeto resist him, he settled matters throughout Greece and the next year united the Greeks ( except for Sparta) in a common peace and alliance, leaving him (as commander – in – chief) in effective control.

Ernst Badian,“The Cambringe history of Iran”,Volume 2,page 422