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Athens was an empire by taking money from the Delian League and using it to build a strong navy. Sparta and all the other city states became an empire by defeating Athens. Macedonia took control of the land during the Peloponnesian War.
There never was a "Greek empire".
There was no Greek empire to destroy. The Greek world comprised over 2,000 independent city-states. They were eventually absorbed into the Roman Empire.
As far as I know there was no ..."pension" (lol) empire that any greek leader conquered. In case you meant Persian Empire, it was Alexander the Great who conquered it.
Greek cities interfered in the Persian Empire in support of the Greek cities within the Empire. This led the Persians to think that the only way for peace was to absorb the Greek cities into the Empire. A fifty-year war ensued.
It was not a Greek who conquered Asia Minor and the Persian Empire, it was the Macedonian king Alexander the Great