<P> By 387 BC, the central front of the Corinthian War had shifted from the Greek mainland to the Aegean, where an Athenian fleet under Thrasybulus had successfully placed a number of cities across the Aegean under Athenian control, and was acting in collaboration with Evagoras, the king of Cyprus . Since Evagoras was an enemy of Persia, and many of the Athenian gains threatened Persian interests, these developments prompted Artaxerxes to switch his support from Athens and her allies to Sparta . Antalcidas, the commander of a Spartan fleet, was summoned to Susa, along with the satrap, Tiribazus . There, the Spartans and Persians worked out the form of an agreement to end the war . </P> <P> To bring the Athenians to the negotiating table, Antalcidas then moved his fleet of 90 ships to the Hellespont, where he could threaten the trade routes along which the Athenians imported grain from the Black Sea region . The Athenians, mindful of their disastrous defeat in 404 BC, when the Spartans had gained control of the Hellespont, agreed to negotiate, and Thebes, Corinth, and Argos, unwilling to fight on without Athens, were also forced to negotiate . In a peace conference at Sparta, all the belligerents agreed to the terms laid down by Artaxerxes . </P> <P> The most notable feature of the King's Peace is the Persian influence it reflects . The Persian decree that established the terms of the peace, as recorded by Xenophon, clearly shows this: </P> <P> King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros; and these should belong, as of old, to the Athenians . But whichever of the two parties does not accept this peace, upon them I will make war, in company with those who desire this arrangement, both by land and by sea, with ships and with money . </P>

The idea of the king's peace of 386 b.c.e. was that