Corinthian War
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The Corinthian War was an ancient conflict fought between 395 BC and 387 BC. In the course of it a number of Greek city states challenged the hegemony that Sparta had established following its victory in the Peloponnesian War
This war saw Sparta, already at war with Persia, facing an alliance between its traditional enemies Athens and Argos, and its former allies Thebes and Corinth. The war was largely a stalemate, focusing on the Spartan king Agesilaus's siege of Corinth, which lasted until 390 BC, when the city was relieved by the Athenian general Iphicrates. This victory gave the Persians, who had been bankrolling the allies, pause, leading to the Peace of Antalcidas of 387 BC, in which the Greek states recognized Persian hegemony over Greece, which in effect played out as Spartan domination.