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392. — Pasinic-liis, leader of the pliiloLaconian party in Corinth, admits tlie Lauedaenionians within the lonj; walls of Corinth
The Lacedaemonians gain a victory within the walls, and destroy part of them between Corinth and Lei haeum.
They then march through the hreaeh to Megara, capture Crommyon and iSidus ; and returning south, they occuj)y
Kpiticia, on the frontier of Kpidanrus.
391.—Agesilaus, helped by his brother Teleutias with a fleet, captures Lechaeum.
390. —Agesilaus, after celebrating the Isthmian games, captures Peiraeum, on a promontory jutting into the Gulf of Corinth,
thereby cutting otV Corinthian communications with Hoeotia. He returns to h-parta, leaving Lechaeum garrisoned.
Iphicrates, with his peltasts, utterly defeats a body of heavy-armed Spartans who were on tlieir way between
Lechaeum and Amydae, near Sparta
Iphicrates also retakes Crommyon, Sidus and Peiraeum.
887.—Peace of Antalcidas.
384.—Spartans restore Plataea.
383.—Phoebidas, Spartan commander, seizes the Cadmea, the acropolis of Thebes, in time of peace.
379. —Liberation of Thebes by I'elopidas and fellow-conspirators, helped by an Athenian volunteer force, thougli Athens is at
peace with Sparta.
378.—Agesilaus invades Boeotia, and leaves Spliodrias as harmost at Thespiae.
Sphodrias invades Attica in time of peace, attempting to seize the Piraeus. He is tried at Sparta for this unjustifiable
raid, but is act|Uitted.
Athens joins Thebes against Sparta.
The second Athenian-Aegean league established.
377.—Agesilaus again invades Boeotia, but gains no decisive advantage.
376. —Cleombrotus, of Sparta, marches against Boeotia, but fails to get over the passes of Mt. Cithaeron.
Spartan fleet is defeated at Naxus bj' the Athenians under Chabrias, who is now supreme in the Aegean.
374. — Pelopidas defeats the Spartans who are holding Orchomenus. Spartans also make an expedition into Locria, but
Pelopidas catches them at Tegyra, on their return, and defeats them, though they were superior in numbers.
Thebans now expel Lacedaemonians out of all Boeotia, except Orchomenus.
Thebans invade Phocis.
371. — Athens, alarmed at the power of Thebes, makes peace with Sparta— Aire of Calling.
Thebes refuses to sign the peace treaty, except in the name of all Boeotia. Sparta declares war on Thebes.
Cleombrotus, who was in Phocis with a Spartan army, is ordered to march against Thebes and compel the Thebans
to set free the Boeotian cities.
Thebans post their forjes near Coronea to bar his way.
Cleombrotus inarches from Chaeronea, jjast their left flank, by a difficult route round Mt. Helicon to Thisbe,
defeating a Theban detachment on his way. From Thisbe he goes to Creusis, capturing the port and the 12 Theban
ships there. Having thus secured his rear, and his connnunications with the Peloponnese, he advances north towards
Thebes, but finds the Theban aimy, under Epaminondas, posted north of Leuctra, to bar his way.
Battle of Leuctra ; Spartans defeated and Cleombrotus killed.
The Lacedaemonian army remained in entrenchntents on the hill of Leuctra. After the battle, Jason of Pherae, ally
of Thebes, arrived at the Thel>an camp and induced the Thebans to grant a truce to the Lacedaemonians, and to
allow lliem to retire unmolested.
The Spartans had sent reinforcements under Arehidamus, which were transported by sliip from Corinth to Creusis.
Before arrival of these reinforcements, Spartans accept the conditions offered, and evacuate Boeotia.
Eml of the period of Spartan supremacy.