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.

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.