in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian Sea, opposite to Thesprotia, a district of Epirus, and called Scheria and Phaecia by Homer. In Callimachus it is called Drepane, which, according to the Scholiast, was its most ancient name. It is famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses and the gardens of Alcinous. Corcyra is now Corfu, one of the Ionian Islands.

the chief town of the island, formerly powerful, and capable of coping with mighty states. It is situated about the middle of the eastern side of the island. It was called the Town of the Phaeacians by Homer, and is now Corfu, from the Kephe of the middle ages, the name of the citadel. It was founded by a colony of Corinthians. Long. 19. 55. E. Lat. 39. 40. N.