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Encyclopedia Britannica



SYBARIS

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 275 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SYBARIS , a city of Magna Graecia, on the Gulf of Tarentum, between the rivers Crathis (Crati) and Sybaris (Coscile), which now meet 3 M. from the sea., but in ancient times had independent mouths, was the oldest
Greek
  colony in this region. It was an Achaean colony founded by Isus of Helice (about 720 B.c.), but had among its settlers many Troezenians, who were ultimately expelled. Placed in a very fertile, though now most unhealthy, region, and following a liberal policy in the admission of citizens from all quarters, the city became
great
  and opulent, with a vast subject territory and divers daughter colonies even on the Tyrrhenian Sea (Posidonia, Laus, Scidrus). For magnificence and luxury the Sybarites were proverbial throughout
Greece
 , and in the 6th
century
  probably no Hellenic city could compare with its wealth and splendour. At length contests between the democrats and oligarchs, in which many of the latter were expelled and took
refuge
  at Crotona, led to a war with that city, and the Crotoniats with very inferior forces were completely victorious. They razed Sybaris to the ground and turned the waters of Crathis to flow over its ruins (510 B.C.). Explorations undertaken by. the Italian government in 1879 and 1887 failed to lead to a precise knowledge of the site. The only discoveries made were (1) that of an extensiye necropolis, some 8 m. to the west of the confluence of the two rivers, of the end of the first
Iron
  age, known as that of Torre Mordillo, the contents of which are now preserved at
Potenza
 ; (2) that of a necropolis of about 400 B.e.the period of the greatest prosperity of Thurii (q.v.)consisting of tombs covered by tumuli (called locally timponi), in some of which were found fine gold plates with mystic
inscriptions
  in
Greek
  characters; one of these tumuli was over 90 ft. in
diameter
  at the base with a single burial in a sarcophagus in the centre.
See F. Lenormant, La Grande-Grace, i. 325 seq. (Paris, 1881); F. S. Cavallari, in Notizie degli Scavi (1879, passim; 188o, 68, 152); A. Pasqui, ibid. (1888), 239, 462, 575, 648; P. Orsi, in Atti del congresso di scienze storiche, v. 195 sqq. (Rome, 1904) (T. As.)


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