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As title really, Byzantium did exist at this point, it had been conquered by Spartans and Athenians and Persians at different points, and was a prominent city by any measure.

I'm curious as to potential PoDs and ideas on how you could have what IOTL was Constantinople become THE Premier Greek City, leading the Greek world as a Hegemony, without something like Philip of Macedon conquering it and making it a capital (a favourite of mine, but I'm curious to see what is possible).

Could it arise as a third party during the Peloponnesian wars? Or perhaps somehow performing a miraculous defence of 'Europa' during Darius I's campaign in Scythia? A diplomatic power to unite the Thracians and later the Greeks into a league? Anything goes.

Only rules are

1) Pre-Philip or No Philip scenarios only.
2) Has to lead the Greek world, it can lead a Greater Greek or a Greco-Thracian, Greco-Something, but it has to be recognisably Greek.
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