CORCYRA, in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian sea, opposite to Thesprotia a district of Epirus, called Scheria and Phæacia by Homer. In Callimachus it is called Drepane; its most ancient name, according to the Scholiast, from the curvity of its figure. Famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses and the gardens of Alcinoos. Now Corfu, one of the Ionian islands.