Abstract
The ancient Greek debate on the causes of the Corinthian War still continues in modern scholarly variance of opinion over the proper weight that should be assigned to such factors as Persian involvement and Greek economic versus strictly political motives for waging war against Sparta. Xenophon tells us how the Persian chiliarch Tithraustes sent the Rhodian Timocrates with an amount of fifty talents to Greece, ordering him ?to distribute it among the leaders of the cities on the condition that they start a war against the Lacedaemonians?. The author takes the accounts of Xenophon and the author of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia at face value, looks at their most salient features and tries to understand them in the larger historiographical context of their works. Such an inquiry also inevitably raises the question whether and how the two versions under discussion?which are roughly contemporaneous?relate to one another. Keywords:Corinthian War; Greece; Hellenica Oxyrhynchia; Spartans; Timocrates; Xenophon
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