The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

PERIOD X. CIRC. B.C. 338315.
Whether Thebes made any further resistance after the
battle of Chaeroneia we are not informed, but it is certain
that the city fell almost immediately into the hands of the
conqueror.
The leading citizens were now either put to death or
driven into exile, and a council of 300 Thebans, partizans
of Philip, was invested with absolute power and supported
by a Macedonian garrison in the Cadmeia.
Thebes was now degraded from her proud position as
head of all Boeotia, her ancient enemies, Orchomenus,
Thespia), and Platsoa, were restored, and autonomy was
conferred once more upon all the more important Boeotian
towns, such as Orchomenus, Thespiee, Haliartus, Leba-
deia, and Plataea.
The constitution of Bceotia was once more very much
what it had been in the days when the Spartans held the
land half a century before. Now, as then, Thebes was
the greatest sufferer, and galling in the extreme were the
insults and personal injuries which her citizens were
compelled to submit to at the hands of the barbarous
Macedonian soldiery.
Driven at length to despair they rose against their
oppressors, B.C. 335, slew Timolaus, one of the leading
partizans of Philip, proclaimed themselves autonomous,
and proceeded to the election of Boeotarchs. But the
Macedonian garrison in the Cadmeia was not to be so
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