Thucydides relates that this city was the site of a bloody civil war when Peithias was brought to trial by some released prisoners, leading to strife between the commons and o
Thucydides relates that this city was the site of a bloody civil war when Peithias was brought to trial by some released prisoners, leading to strife between the commons and oligarchs. It was once offered as a dowry with Lanassa, the daughter of Agathocles, and thus it briefly became part of the empire of Epirus, though she later remarried giving it to Demetrius Poliocertes. It sent a man named Phalius to found its colony Epidamnus, which represents the modern city of Durres, and that colony later appealed to it for help. In violation of the Thirty Years Peace, it secured an alliance with Athens, an act which allowed the Athenians to obtain its large navy on the eve of the Peloponnesian War. FTP, name this colony of Corinth which fought against its mother state.
Thucydides relates that this city was the site of a bloody civil war when Peithias was brought to trial by some released prisoners, leading to strife between the commons and oligarchs.
{Corcyra} (or Corfu)