ABSTRACT
The Macedonian period is interesting to us for a number of reasons. It saw dramatic
swings of the pendulum along the spectrum. Philip II established a hegemony which was
close to dominion over central Hellas. Alexander brought the central area, and Asian
Hellas which had largely reverted to multiple independences, with the Persian Empire
into a single imperial structure. But his death led to its fragmentation into a group of
independent imperial kingdoms and smaller states. The Hellenistic kingdoms dominated
a new states system that was in many ways remarkably like the European one.
