Qualla: Battle of Naupactus https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Naupactus https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus Battle of Naupactus: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit משתמש:שמחה, Public domain. The Peloponnesians were already singing their victory paean. Seventy-seven ships against twenty, nine Athenians already driven ashore, and the survivors fleeing in single file toward the harbor of Naupactus — the outcome seemed certain. Then the last Athenian trireme in the chase swung around an anchored merchant vessel, spun 270 degrees, and drove its bronze ram into the side of the leading Peloponnesian ship, sinking it. What followed turned the autumn of 429 BC into one of antiquity's most studied reversals of fortune.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/sqzd-battle-of-naupactus-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Naupactus: The Weight of the Odds https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit «ВЭС». (СПб; 1914 год)., Public domain. The contest should never have been close. Sparta's navarch Cnemus had assembled a fleet of seventy-seven triremes by combining the survivors from the earlier Battle of Rhium with fresh levies from allies along the gulf. He advanced them to Panormus in Achaea while Athenian admira...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/sqzd-battle-of-naupactus-the-weight-of-the-odds.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Naupactus: Into the Gulf https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit «ВЭС». (СПб; 1914 год)., Public domain. The Peloponnesians made their move after six or seven days at anchor. Rather than engage in the open sea — where Athenian crews had already shown they could outmaneuver larger forces — Cnemus led his fleet eastward into the constricted waters of the Corinthian Gulf. The Athenians...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/sqzd-battle-of-naupactus-into-the-gulf.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Naupactus: Collapse, Then Reversal https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit «ВЭС». (СПб; 1914 год)., Public domain. When Cnemus gave the signal, the Peloponnesian fleet wheeled and drove across the gulf. Only the eleven leading Athenian ships managed to slip around the enemy right wing and race for Naupactus; the remaining nine were cornered, driven onto the beach, and captured. Ten of the ele...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/sqzd-battle-of-naupactus-collapse-then-reversal.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Naupactus: What the Victory Cost and Secured https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit «ВЭС». (СПб; 1914 год)., Public domain. When the fighting ended, the Athenians had recaptured all but one of their nine grounded ships and taken six Peloponnesian vessels. Both sides erected trophies claiming victory, as was the custom. But the actions that followed made the real outcome plain: the Peloponnesians retre...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/d/battle-of-naupactus-wp/sqzd-battle-of-naupactus-what-the-victory-cost-and-secured.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Naupactus: Phormio's Waters Today https://qualla.com/battle-of-naupactus/ Photo credit «ВЭС». (СПб; 1914 год)., Public domain. The Gulf of Corinth remains one of the most visually compelling stretches of water in the Mediterranean world. From the air, its long blue corridor, narrow at the western end where the Strait of Rhium separates it from open sea, looks precisely like the tactical trap Cnemus tried...

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