GREEKS BETWEEN PERSIA AND CARTHAGE, 399-360 BC

LYSANDER (d. 395 BC) AND SPARTAN TYRRANY; DEATH OF DARIUS II. HIS SON CYRUS. THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND. XENOPHON (428-357 BC). THALATTA!! AGESILAOS. IONIAN FREEDOM. PERSIAN GOLD. THE CORINTHIAN WAR (394-387 BC) AGAINST CORINTH AND THEBES. THE REVIVAL OF ATHENS.

THE KING'S PEACE 387 BC: NO NEW ALLIANCES! SPARTAN INTFERENCE IN THEBES AND ATHENS; A RENEWED ATHENIAN FLEET (WITHOUT EMPIRE) AND NAVAL DOMINANCE; THE ANTI-THEBAN "COMMON PEACE" (375 BC).

CHANGES IN WAR: LIGHT-ARMED INFANTRY (PELTASTS), CAVALRY, FORTIFICATONS, MERCENARIES

DECLINE OF SPARTA. BATTLE OF LEUCTRA (371 BC). THE GREAT EPAMINONDAS OF THEBES (from 371 BC), INVASION OF SPARTAN TERRITORY. MESSENIA. BATTLE OF MANTINEIA (362 BC) AND DEATH OF EPAMINONDAS.

DIONYSIUS I OF SYRACUSE (ruled 393-367 BC). ATTACK ON PHOENICIAN MOTYA. DIONYSIUS II AND PLATO (360 BC). ANARCHY AND DEPOPULATION c. 350 BC.