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Battle of Sybota
Part of the Peloponnesian War
Date433 BCE
Location
Off Corcyra
Result Stalemate. Both Corinth and Corcyra claim victory.
Belligerents
Corcyra,
Athens
Corinth
Commanders and leaders
Miciades,
Aisimides,
Eurybatus,
Lacedaimonius,
Diotimus,
Proteas
Xenoclides
Strength
110 Corcyraean ships,
10 Athenian ships
150 ships
Casualties and losses
70 ships destroyed,
1000+ captured,
many killed
30 ships destroyed,
many killed

The Battle of Sybota (Ancient Greek: Σύβοτα) took place in 433 BC between Corcyra (modern Corfu) and Corinth.[1] It was one of the immediate catalysts for the Peloponnesian War.

  1. ^ Wheeler, James Talboys (1855). An Analysis and Summary of Thucydides: With a Chronological Table of Principal Events, Money, Distances, Etc. Reduced to English Terms; a Skeleton Outline of the Geography; Abstracts of All the Speeches, Index, Etc. Bohn. pp. 20–21.

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