Agesilaus of Sparta continues to fight the Athenian coalition near Corinth, where the entrenched Iphicrates puts his peltasts to skillful use in 390, nearly annihilating a battalion of Spartan hoplites.

Athens, which has recovered many port cities from the Spartans and rebuilt its defenses, captures …

Greeks from Syracuse settle Ancona, situated on a promontory in the Adriatic Sea in central Italy, in about 390.

Thrasybulus leads an Athenian fleet toward Rhodes.

After recovering most of Lesbos for Athens around 389, he is murdered at Aspendus.

Agesilaus battles the coalition in Acarnania in 389 BCE.

Dionysius leads an expedition against Rhegium and other Greek cities of southern Italy after 390, and …

…with the aid of the Lucanians, he devastates the territories of Thurii, …

…Croton, and …

…Locri.

Isocrates hails the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius as a champion of Hellenism, but the brutality of his conquests make him unpopular in Greece, and his literary pretensions are deplored.

When he sends a splendid embassy to the Olympic festival of 388, a crowd pillages the tents of his envoys.