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Thurii was founded as a colony of Athens along with exiles from Sybaris in 443 BC. [1] Justin writes that people say that the city of Thurii was built by Philoctetes and his monument is seen there even to his days, as well as the arrows of Hercules which laid up in the temple of Apollo. [2]
Thurii was founded in 443 bce by Athenians who expelled the Sybarites from their original city. It was later conquered by the Lucanians and the Romans, and excavations revealed Greek and Roman remains.
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Thurii was founded by Athenians and Sybarites in 443 B.C. on the site of the former city of Sybaris. It was a Roman dependency from 194 B.C. and later became Copia, a Roman colony that declined and was abandoned.
Thurii (thyōō´rēī), ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded by Pericles in 443 BC to replace ruined Sybaris. New Greek colonists came, among them the city planner Hippodamus and possibly Herodotus and Lysias.
A Greek colony in southern Italy, founded in 444/3 bc on the site of Sybaris. It was a panhellenic foundation (see panhellenism), but the main impetus was Athenian. Herodotus and Lysias were reputedly colonists, and it was planned by Hippodamus of Miletus.
Thurii, called also by some Latin writers Thūrium, and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, ne...
The foundation of Thurii 1 was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable events of Athenian policy in the time of Pericles' leadership. Unfortunately, it is also one of the many events not. menitioned-for whatever reason-by Thucydides.2 Diodorus.
