Corinth and Thebes demanded Request that Athens should be destroyed and all its citizens should be enslaved , but Sparta refused .

The First Peloponnesian War ( 460–445 BC ) was fought Hostile_encounter between Sparta as the leaders of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta 's other allies , most notably Thebes , and the Delian League led by Athens with support from Argos .

The Athenians , however , counterattacked Attack and scored Getting a crushing victory over the Boeotians at the Battle of Oenophyta and followed this victory up by conquering Conquering all of Boeotia except for Thebes .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Chaeronea was fought Hostile_encounter in 338 BC , near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia , between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes .

In summer 339 BC , Philip therefore led his army towards South Greece , prompting Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the formation Coming_to_be of an alliance of a few southern Greek states opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to him , led by Athens and Thebes .

After several months of stalemate , Philip finally advanced Cause_to_make_progress into Boeotia in an attempt to march Self_motion on Thebes and Athens .

The forces Causation of Athens and Thebes were destroyed Destroying , and continued resistance Defending was impossible ; the war Hostile_encounter therefore came to an abrupt end Process_end .