![]() ![]() General, Nicostratus, tried to bring about a peaceful settlement and ensureĪn offensive and defensive alliance between Corcyra and Athens. Mercenaries, which ended with the oligarchs being routed. Shortly after this, skirmishes broke out in the city, between theĬommons, who enlisted the aid of the slaves, and the oligarchs, who hired ![]() However, these men burst in upon the senate and killed Peithias and sixty He was acquitted and took revenge by charging five of them in turn. These men brought Peithias, a pro-Athenian civic leader, to trial on Work to convince Corcyra to abandon its ally Athens and join the Peloponnesian Released Corcyraean prisoners with the promise that the former prisoners would The revolution began when Corinth, an ally of Sparta, The commons, allies of Athens, and the oligarchs, who were eager to enlist the In the fifth year of the Peloponnesian war (427 BCE),Īthens' ally Corcyra fell victim to internal strife, a vicious struggle between Map created by Neel Smith, courtesy of Perseus Project 2.0, Yale 1995 Thucydides on other revolutions during the war.The Revolution at Corcyra Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War ![]()
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