The Ionian city of Priene had originally…

Phocis retains control of Delphi and continues the building of the temple, although other Greeks express their resentment at the lavish display of valuable ornaments on Phocian women at the Pythian games of 350 BCE.

Philip invades Molossia in 350 BCE and installs his brother-in-law Alexander as king.

Arybbas flees to Athens (where he will die peacefully in 342 BCE).

Phayllus, after serving two years as war archon of Phocis, dies of illness and is succeeded by his nephew Phalaecus, Onomarchus' son, …

…whose forces the Thebans twice defeat near Chaeronea.

Thebes is so impoverished by war, however, that they have sent an embassy to the king of Persia, which gains them three hundred talents.

The seafaring Phocaean Greeks of Massilia (present Marseille) in about 350 colonize a site (present Nice) on the Baie des Anges of the Mediterranean Sea about one hundred miles (one hundred and sixty kilometers) east of Marseille in southeastern France.

The city’s name probably named honors a victory (nike in Greek) over a neighboring colony.

Desperate for plunder in 349 BCE, Thebes again sacks the rival Boeotian town of Orchomenus.

Philip advances into Chalcidice, threatening the city of Olynthus.

The center of a Chalcidian League reformed after Sparta's decline, Olynthus has stood against Athens in alliance with Philip until, intimidated by the Macedonian monarch's growing power, it plots against him with the Athenians.

With Etesian winds about to blow, Philip, despite the alliance of 356, in summer 349 attacks Olynthus, which turns to the only and obvious place for help, …

…Athens.

This is the occasion of the three Olynthiac Orations delivered by Demosthenes to elicit aid for Olynthus.

One of Demosthenes' stirringly patriotic pleas is to make the reserves of the so-called Festival, or Theoric, Fund immediately available for military purposes—in fact, to finance an Olynthian expedition.

Eubulus, the leader of the pacifist party, champions the less glamorous policy of building up Athens' financial resources slowly in preparation for the time when Philip has to be confronted nearer home.

Olynthus falls in 348 BCE, despite the Athenian help that had eventually been sent.

Many of the inhabitants of the city, their lands expropriated and distributed to Philip's followers, are sold into slavery.

Although Greek warfare has always permitted this theoretically, and the Greeks themselves occasionally have treated small cities with brutality, the treatment of the large city of Olynthus is, nevertheless, shocking to Greek sentiment.

In addition, there is no comfort for Athens from the events in its front yard; …