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, …

…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.

The Boeotian League opposes Sparta in the Corinthian War (395-387) and is defeated and again dissolved, Sparta having had Persian help.

However, Thebes, …

…Thessaly, and …

…a resurgent Athens each is able to carve out small domains for themselves because of Spartan ineptitude.

Sparta compels the cities of Acarnania, a region of west-central Greece, to give up the Athenian alliance in 388 BCE.