I think when we speak of the death of democracy in Hellas, we do not refer to individual local government, but rather to the sovereignty of the democratic polis. Under Macedonian and subsequently Roman rule, any actions voted upon by the citizens could be overridden by command of their conquerors. Foreign policy was flatly dictated to them and they were subject to taxation imposed upon them by a power greater than that of their nominal democracy. The old forms persisted in the smaller day to day running of the subject states, but at no time after Chæronea were these states truly sovereign. A limited democracy at the pleasure of a monarchy is not truly a democracy; all power did not rest with the people or their representatives and therefore the whole of the state was not a democracy in fact.