Historical place profile
Sybaris/Thurii/Copia
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:452457
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:452457
- Place type
- archaeological-site, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.717328, 16.494262
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 D2 Sybaris/Thurii/Copia
Source and reuse
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Research path
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