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In 243 BCE, the strategos of the Achaean League Aratus of Sicyon breached the citadel of Corinth and expelled the garrison of Macedonians. This effectively liberated the Peloponnesus from a Macedonian domination which had begun in 277 BCE with Antigonus II Gonatas.1 Contemporaneously, the Aetolian League emerged as a legitimate Greek power through its defenseContinue reading “Greek Federalism in the Age of Alexander:”