LAMIAN WAR

also called Greek War (323322 BC) conflict in which Athenian independence was lost despite efforts by Athens and its Aetolian allies to free themselves from Macedonian domination after the death of Alexander the Great. Athenian democratic leaders, in conjunction with the Aetolian League, fielded an army of 30,000 men in October 323. They seized Thermopylae and kept a Macedonian army under Antipater blockaded in the city of Lama until the spring of 322, when the arrival of enemy reinforcements from Asia forced them to raise the siege. Outnumbered and deserted by their allies, the Athenians were defeated at the Battle of Crannon (September 322) and surrendered unconditionally. Abandoning Alexander's liberal policy, Antipater forced Athens to accept an oligarchical government subservient to him and had Hyperides and Demosthenes, leaders of the anti-Macedonian party, sentenced to death.