Corinthian War

The Corinthian War was fought from 395 to 387 BC between Sparta and a coalition of Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed with Persian financial support aimed at checking Spartan power in Greece after its victory in the Peloponnesian War. Fighting on land was largely inconclusive, marked by battles such as Haliartus in 395 BC, Nemea and Coronea in 394 BC, but the war's decisive stroke came at sea, where the Persian fleet under the Athenian exile Conon and the Persian satrap Pharnabazus destroyed the Spartan navy at the Battle of Cnidus in 394 BC, ending Spartan naval supremacy in the Aegean. The prolonged stalemate that followed was resolved when Sparta, reversing its earlier anti-Persian stance, negotiated directly with the Persian king and secured the King's Peace, also called the Peace of Antalcidas, in 387 BC, which restored Persian control over the Greek cities of Ionia in exchange for Persian backing of Spartan dominance over mainland Greece.