The monograph is dedicated to the tragic period for the Greeks when they waged an unequal struggle with the king of neighboring Macedonia, the famous commander Alexander. At the center of the work are the problems of the relationship between the Greeks and the conqueror, the struggle for freedom and the desire for power. Based on the analysis of various sources, the following main questions are investigated: the peculiarity of the political struggle in the policies, the peculiarities of the situation of the Hellenic states already subordinate to Macedonia, and those who did not want to come to terms with the loss of independence, the place of the Hellenes in the system of the new empire.