Not the Macedonians themselves, for they were struggling to hold on to their dominions and at times to even survive against Epirus to their west. Not those of Sicily, for they were preoccupied with Carthage. So who was going to stop the Romans? Not the southern Greek city states, who were far more worried about their neighbours or the Antigonid Macedonians. (And even then, he had not ruled over all Greeks.) Alliances and leagues were made and broken with dizzying frequency, and nobody was able to assert himself as the undisputed master of the Greek world as Alexander had been. They were forever fighting one another, or the other Successor Kingdoms, or the Carthaginians, or various local peoples. Now, as should be clear, none of these parts and entities I named were united. It was this part of the Greek world that first came into contact with the Romans. Southern Italy is particularly relevant to your question: it was so thoroughly dominated by Greek colonies that it was called Megálē Hellás or Magna Graecia: Great(er) Greece. Finally, we must not forget the Greek diaspora: many a Greek colony had been founded even before Alexander started conquering, on the coasts of the Black Sea, Sicily, southern Italy and even as far afield as France (Massilia) and Spain. There was also Epirus, an up-and-coming kingdom on the eastern coast of Adriatic, which though it had never been a part of Alexander's domain, firmly stood in the influence of Greek and Hellenistic thought and culture. It frequently tried to re-assert its dominance over various cities or parts of the Greek peninsula, leading to many a war. (Often, another league.) There was Macedon, the homeland of Philip III and Alexander the Great, which had more or less asserted itself as Greece's overlord when those two ruled, but now was just one of many Hellenistic successor states to the great empire of Alexander. Sometimes, these would align in leagues like the Achaean or Aetolian leagues, to defend themselves against some kind of threat or threaten some kind of common enemy. There was a multitude of indepenent Greek city states, such as Athens, Corinth or Sparta. Then again Roman history never interested me much.not really my time period.First off, there was no such thing as "Greece" whilst the Roman Republic was on the rise. Compared to the paradox OT, I hardly know anything. Compared to the average person, I know all there is to know about Roman history. The game is never ending, and one can never quite leave once joined. The darkest of rumors tell of a game where forum users lynch and eat each other, simply for the fun of it. Others say that if you look long enough, you'll find the Edge of the Forum, where any semblance of sanity ceases to exist. They say ghosts lurk the elder parts of the forum, wraiths who registered, made the slightest mark, and then disappeared. Games hosted: WWL CCLXXXIX WWL CCCVI WWL CCCX WWL CCCXXIV WWL CCCXXXV WW CLXXXIII WWL CCCXLVII Wins as a wolf: WW CLIX WWL CCXCIV WWL CCCXVI (Stalingrad!) WWL CCCXX WWL CCCXXV WW CLXXXV WWL CCCXLIX (Stalingrad!) Wins as villager: WWL CCLXXXVIII WWL CCXCVIII WWL CCCXL WW CLXXXVI WWL CCCXLVI WW CXCI WW CXCIV WWL CCCLXXII WW CCIII, WW CCIV (JL mouthpiece since day 1!), WWL CCCLXXXVII, WWL CCCXCV Play Werewolf and lynch your fellow forumites. Copy and paste this into your signature if you agree! instead of Catholic/Orthodox split for Crusader Kings III. We need Chalcedonian Christianity in 867 A.D.
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