Corcyraeans
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Corcyra, mother-city's rival to Corinth's claim over Epidamnus, whose refusal of the Epidamnian appeal and subsequent siege and naval victory precipitate open war with Corinth.
Subsequently, when the Corinthians and their allies, after being vanquished at sea, were gone home, the Corcyraeans were masters of the whole sea in those parts, and sailed to Leucas, a Corinthian colony, and wasted part of the territory;
and the Corcyraeans won a decided victory, and destroyed fifteen ships of the Corinthians.
Whereupon the Corcyraeans went against them with forty ships, together with the banished men, with a view to restore them;
The Rights of War and Peace
The people of Corcyra, cited as an example in the discussion of relations absent a treaty.
So at a remote period, before the times of the Peloponnesian war, the Corcyraeans were not considered as enemies by the Athenians, though there was no treaty of peace subsisting between them, as appears from the speech of the Corinthians given by Thucydides.
Thus the Athenians might have defended the Corcyraeans, in a just cause, even against the Corinthians, their more ancient allies.
So that the Corcyraeans, when going to besiege Epidamnus, gave leave to all strangers to withdraw, denouncing that they would otherwise be treated as enemies.
The Histories
People of Corcyra who pledged aid to the Greek cause but deliberately delayed their fleet to avoid committing to either side.
The Corcyraeans straightaway promised to send help and protection, declaring that they would not allow Hellas to perish, for if she should fall, the very next day would certainly see them also enslaved.
They manned sixty ships and put out to sea, making for the coast of the Peloponnese.
when the Greeks blamed them for sending no help, they said that they had manned sixty triremes, but that they could not round Malea because of the Etesian winds.
Hellenica
The inhabitants and civic body of Corcyra, controlled by Timotheus but treated leniently.
As for Timotheus, after he had sailed round Peloponnesus he brought Corcyra at once under his control;
When, however, Timotheus finished refitting the ships which he had and had manned, besides, others from Corcyra, the whole number of his ships now amounting to more than seventy, he was far superior to the enemy in the size of his fleet.
Crinippus, however, was so mortified that he died by a self-inflicted death, and Iphicrates let the rest go, accepting Corcyraeans as sureties for the ransoms.
Orations
The people of Corcyra, referenced as potential beneficiaries of Athenian aid.
And the difference is just this, that the orators consider in this case or in that—for instance, whether it is expedient for the Athenians to make war upon the Peloponnesians, or to help the Corcyraeans against the Corinthians, or for the Thebans to ally with Philip against the Phocians, or for Alexander to cross over into Asia.