Thurii

Place

Civil War 3.22 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… And Caelius, setting forth, as he gave out, to Caesar, reached Thurii. …”

Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.

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Geographical record

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Sybaris was an ancient city of Magna Graecia founded as an Achaean colony as early as 720 BCE on a plain that was drained by both the Crati and Sybaris rivers. Greeks from Kroton destroyed Sybaris ca. 510 BCE. Following this destruction, two successive cities, Thurii and Copia, respectively, were established on the same site. This topic is of particular interest to ancient authors, at least 70 of whom mention it.

Pleiades 452457 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 D2 Sybaris/Thurii/Copia

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