This polity was saved fro
This polity was saved from being looted by forces under Nicanor the Elephant due to a Roman warning, and one statesman from this place, Chremonides, started a namesake war in which he lost the naval Battle of Cos to the Macedonians. Chabrias revived this polity's navy, and it lost the battles of Rhamnus and Crannon in the Lamian War under its prodigious general Phocion. Home of the orators Hypereides and Dinarchus, Attalus II of Pergamum contributed a stoa to this city, and it lost its independence in a war versus Antigonus Gonatas. Captured by Demetrius Poliorketes in 307 BC, Demetrius of Phalerum ruled it for ten years as a governor appointed by Cassander. The author of Against the Sophists, Isocrates, lived here, as well as the authors of Against Timarchos and On the Crown. For 10 points, name this city-state home to Aeschinus and Demosthenes, ruled by the Thirty Tyrants at the close of the fifth century BC, before which it had been under the thrall of the demagogues Alcibiades and Pericles.
This polity was saved from being looted by forces under Nicanor the Elephant due to a Roman warning, and one statesman from this place, Chremonides, started a namesake war in which he lost the naval Battle of Cos to the Macedonians.
{Athens}