CORONEIA, BATTLE OF, 394 B.C. This battle of the "Corinthian War" is of military interest as showing a further small development in the art of war since Cunaxa (q.v.). While the offensive by the coalition of Thebes, Athens, Argos and Corinth was being stemmed at Nemea (q.v.), the Spartan king, Agesilaus, was on his way back overland from Asia Minor to the defence of the homeland, having broken off his campaign against the Persian power on the urgent summons of the ephors. After passing safely through Thessaly and gathering reinforcements, he was faced at the gap of Coroneia, in Boeotia, by the main forces of the coali tion. The usual parallel battle followed, the usual "drift" to the right occurred, and as usual each right wing overlapped and smashed the opposing left. Then, however, while the victorious Theban right pressed on to attack the Spartan camp, Agesilaus, improving on the novel device of Nemea, wheeled his victorious right inwards against the enemy centre. The Thebans succeeded in forming a new front to meet this menace and, of ter a fight which Xenophon describes as the hardest in his experience, forced their way through to join the rest of their army. Nevertheless, Agesi laus had cut a fresh step in the steep ascent of warfare from brawn to brain. (See further LEUCTRA, BATTLE OF.)