Qualla: Battle of Corycus https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/b/battle-of-corycus-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Corycus https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus Battle of Corycus: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus/ Photo credit Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain., CC BY-SA 3.0. The decisive moment was not a ramming charge but a refusal to fight on the enemy's terms. As the Seleucid fleet blocked the coast off Cape Corycus in September 191 BC, the Roman admiral Gaius Livius Salinator did the unexpected: he turned his ships out to open water. The Seleucids had counted on catching the allied fleet strung out and divided. By steering seaward, Livius bought the minutes he needed for his Pergamene allies to close up behind him, and the numerical edge the enemy had been banking on simply dissolved.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/b/battle-of-corycus-wp/swfb-battle-of-corycus-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Corycus: The War Behind the Battle https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus/ Photo credit Kryston, Public domain. This clash was the opening sea fight of the Roman-Seleucid War, a collision between the rising power of the Roman Republic and the sprawling empire of Antiochus III the Great, who ruled lands from the Aegean to the borders of India. Antiochus had pushed into Asia Minor and across...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/b/battle-of-corycus-wp/swfb-battle-of-corycus-the-war-behind-the-battle.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Corycus: The Fleets and the Cape https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus/ Photo credit Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain., CC BY-SA 3.0. Antiochus handed his fleet to Polyxenidas, an exile from Rhodes serving the Seleucid crown, with roughly seventy decked warships and more than a hundred lighter galleys. Against him came Livius with eighty-one Roman quinqueremes, a contingent of Carthaginian and Pergamene vessels...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/b/battle-of-corycus-wp/swfb-battle-of-corycus-the-fleets-and-the-cape.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Corycus: Hooks and Marines https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus/ Photo credit Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain., CC BY-SA 3.0. Once the lines met, the fighting turned on Roman strengths. Where the Seleucids relied on lighter, faster ships, the Romans clamped on with grappling hooks and turned each contact into a boarding action, sending marine infantry across the rails to overwhelm the enemy's thinner cr...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/b/battle-of-corycus-wp/swfb-battle-of-corycus-hooks-and-marines.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Corycus: What the Victory Bought https://qualla.com/battle-of-corycus/ Photo credit Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain., CC BY-SA 3.0. Corycus did not end the war, but it set the pattern for what followed. With the Seleucid fleet bottled toward Ephesus, the allies took the initiative at sea. Antiochus, undeterred, summoned Hannibal himself to build a new fleet in Phoenicia, the famed Carthaginian general's first...

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