Quote Originally Posted by Pelopidas
Yes, it's important to remember that the Greeks were pretty strong.
Even the Romans weren't fool enought to fight all Greeks at a time...

The problem for the greeks was that for them, the best and greatest opponent was alweys the neighoubouring Greek cities...
Yeah. I was thinking this morning that whilst the Greeks (i.e. pagan greek-speaking peoples) were pretty respectable in war and commerce, and leaders in culture, they were dumb as rocks when it came to geopolitics. In all those hundreds of years from the beginnning of polis civilization to the Roman/Sassanid takeovers, they got together effectively for about ten years around Marathon/Salamis/Plataea and another dozen under Alexander. The rest of the time, they were more interested in fighting each other than their common enemies.