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History: Greek Antiquity (762 words) |
 | In 435 BC Epidamnos, a colony on the Illyrian coast, was the reason the Corfiots clashed with the Corinthians. |
| Between the years 427 to 425 BC Corfu was ravaged and savage civil war between the aristocratic and democratic parties, the former favouring the Corinthians and the latter the Athenians. |
| In 303 BC the island was occupied for a short time by the Lacedeamonian general Cleonymos, then regains its independence and later it was attacked and conquered by the Syracussian tyrant Agathokles. |
| Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2374 words) |
| In the 3rd century BC the Messanan Crisis motivated the intervention of the Roman Republic into Sicilian affairs, and led to the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage. |
| By the end of war (242 BC) all Sicily was in Roman hands. |
| Many Carthaginian sympathizers were killed-- in 210 BC the Roman consul M. Valerian told the Roman Senate that "no Carthaginian remains in Sicily". |
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