The winning commander of this battle was given a torch-bearer and a flute-player to accompany him at all times.
In T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, the author recalls, "Stetson! You who were with me in the ships" of this battle at the end of "The Burial of the Dead." The winning commander of this battle was given a torch-bearer and a flute-player to accompany him at all times. This victory was inspired by success at the Battle of Agrigentum and reversed an earlier loss at the Lipari Islands. This battle was a victory over Hannibal Gisgo, and it saw the first Roman use of the (*) corvus by the winning commander Gaius Duillius. For 10 points, identify this 260 B.C. battle off the coast of northern Sicily, the first naval victory for the Romans in the First Punic War.
In T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, the author recalls, "Stetson!
Battle of Mylae