388 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	410s BC  400s BC  390s BC  – 380s BC –  370s BC  360s BC  350s BC
Years:	391 BC 390 BC 389 BC – 388 BC – 387 BC 386 BC 385 BC

388 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	388 BC CCCLXXXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	366
Ancient Egypt era	XXIX dynasty, 11
- Pharaoh	Hakor, 6
Ancient Greek era	98th Olympiad (victor)¹
Assyrian calendar	4363
Bengali calendar	−980
Berber calendar	563
Buddhist calendar	157
Burmese calendar	−1025
Byzantine calendar	5121–5122
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 2309 or 2249     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 2310 or 2250
Coptic calendar	−671 – −670
Discordian calendar	779
Ethiopian calendar	−395 – −394
Hebrew calendar	3373–3374
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−331 – −330
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2714–2715
Holocene calendar	9613
Iranian calendar	1009 BP – 1008 BP
Islamic calendar	1040 BH – 1039 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	1946
Minguo calendar	2299 before ROC 民前2299年
Thai solar calendar	155–156

Year 388 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Capitolinus, Fidenas, Iullus, Corvus, Flavus and Rufus (or, less frequently, year 366 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 388 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Greece

• King Agesipolis I leads a Spartan army against Argos. Since no Argive army challenges him, he plunders the countryside for a time, and then, after receiving several unfavorable omens, returns to Sparta.
• The Athenian general, Thrasybulus, sails to Lesbos, where, with the support of the Mytileneans, he defeats the Spartan forces on the island and wins over a number of cities. While still on Lesbos, however, Thrasybulus is killed by raiders from the city of Aspendus where his financial exactions has made him unpopular.
• Concerned about the revival of Athenian imperialist ambitions, the Persian King Artaxerxes II and King Agesilaus II of Sparta enter into an alliance. Sparta also seeks and gains the support of Dionysius I of Syracuse.

By topic

Art

• Plato, having left Athens on Socrates' death to visit Megara and possibly Egypt, travels to Syracuse at the invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion.
• Aristophanes' play Plutus is performed.

Deaths

• Thrasybulus, Athenian general who has helped overthrow the Thirty Tyrants