Ancient Corcyra

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433 BCE battle during the Peloponnesian War

archaic Greek temple in Corfu, Greece, built in around 580 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra

ancient Greek coalition

ancient city in Greece

naval battle in 229 BCE

archaic temple in Corfu, Greece

Mnasippus of Sparta () was appointed to the command of the armament which was sent to Corcyra, in 373 BC, to recover the island from the Athenians. Having landed there, he ravaged the country, and, blockading the city by sea and land, reduced the Corcyraeans to the greatest extremities. Imagining, however, that success was now within his grasp, he dismissed some of his mercenaries and kept the pay of the rest in arrear. It would appear, too, that discipline was less strictly preserved among his men than heretofore, for we read that the several posts of the besiegers were now imperfectly guarde

archaic tomb in Corfu, Greece