During the seven days that Eurymedon stayed there with his sixty ships the Corcyraeans continued to massacre those of their own citizens whom they considered to be their enemies … There was death in every shape and form. And, as usually happens in such situations, people went to every extreme and beyond it. There were fathers who killed their sons; men were dragged from the temples or butchered on the very altars; some were actually walled up in the temple of Dionysus and died there. So savage was the course of this civil war, and it seemed all the more so because it was one of the first … Later, of course, practically the whole of the Hellenic world was convulsed, with rival parties in every state.