Editing 391 BC (section)

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Persian Empire ====
* The [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] [[satrap]], [[Struthas]], pursues an anti-Spartan policy, prompting the Spartans to order [[Thimbron (fl. 400–391 BC)|Thibron]], their [[governor]], to the Greek cities of [[Ionia]] to attack him. Thibron successfully ravages Persian territory for a time, but is killed, along with a number of his men, when Struthas ambushes them.
* [[Evagoras I|Evagoras]] of [[Salamis, Cyprus|Salamis]] and the Persians battle each other for control of [[Cyprus]]. Aided by the Athenians and the [[Egypt]]ians, Evagoras extends his rule over the greater part of Cyprus and to several cities of [[Anatolia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ruzicka |first=Stephen |date=1983 |title=Clazomenae and Persian Foreign Policy, 387/6 B. C. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1087450 |journal=Phoenix |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=104–108 |doi=10.2307/1087450 |jstor=1087450 |issn=0031-8299}}</ref>

==== Greece ====
* The [[Athens|Athenian]] general, [[Iphicrates]], with a force composed almost entirely of light troops and [[peltasts]] ([[Pilum|javelin]] throwers), wins a decisive victory against the [[Sparta]]n regiment that has been stationed at [[Lechaeum]] in the [[Battle of Lechaeum]]. This is the first time that a force of light [[infantry]] defeats a unit of Greek [[hoplite]]s.
* Iphicrates also campaigns against [[Phlius]] and [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]], decisively defeating their armies and plundering the territory of the Arcadians when they refuse to engage his troops. After this victory, an [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argive]] army marches to [[Corinth]], and, seizing the [[Acrocorinth]], effectively merges Argos and Corinth.

==== Sicily ====
* [[Dionysius I of Syracuse|Dionysius I]], [[tyrant]] of [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]], begins an attempt to extend his rule to the Greek cities of southern [[Italy]]. He unsuccessfully besieges [[Rhegium]].

==== Roman Republic ====
* The [[Roman dictator]] [[Marcus Furius Camillus]] is accused of making an unfair distribution of the spoils of his victory at [[Veii]]. He goes into voluntary exile.
* [[Quintus Fabius Ambustus (tribune)|Quintus Fabius Ambustus]] and two other [[Fabii]] are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of [[Celts]] (whom the Romans call [[Gauls]]), under [[Brennus (4th century BC)|Brennus]], who are advancing down the [[Tiber]] while the Celtic army is besieging [[Clusium]]. After Quintus Fabius' group becomes involved in a skirmish with the Gauls and kill one of the Gauls' leaders, the offended Gauls demand that Rome surrender the Fabii members to them. The Romans refuse, so the Gauls advance on Rome.
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