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Demosthenes' Philippics

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Are We Going to Roll Over and Allow Him to Steam Roll Over Us?

Thebes had been top dog for 10 years before Philip took over. Demosthenes was the diplomatic representative of Thebes in Athens. He wouldn't have wanted to be allied with Thebes if they were oligarchy. But against that, and if I'd been one of them, he's going to come down anyway. We're going to get smashed. That's what a sane Theban would have thought.

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