The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

In fact, the Greek army did not even participate in the battle. It was October 28 ... From there, he advanced with the rest of the army to seize the bridges over the Corinth Canal, aiming to cut off ...

Setting out from Athens, Phidippides made for Sparta journeying by way of Eleusis, Megara, and Corinth ... battle had already been fought. According to Phidippides' own account of the journey, the ...