Corassiae
Κορασσίαι
Corassiae or CORSEAE (Κορασσίαι, Strab. x. p.488; Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 23; Κορσίαι, or Κορσεαί, Strab. xiv. p.636; Agathem. 1.4; Steph. B. sub voce Κορσεαί), a group of islands between Icaria and Samos, distant, according to Agathemerus, 30 stadia from the promontory Ampelos in Samos. They are now called Phurni and Krusi. (Ross, Reisen auf de?? Griech. Inseln, vol. ii. pp. 134, 156.) Some modern writers suppose that Corassiae and Corseae are names of two different groups of islands, the former being SW. of Icaria, and the latter near Samos; but upon a comparison of the two passages of Strabo in which the names occur, it would appear that he speaks of the same groups under these two names.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.