Thurii (/ˈθʊəriaɪ/; Latin: Thūriī, Greek: Θούρῐοι, translit. Thoúrioi), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare Greek: Θούρῐον, translit. Thoúrion, in Ptolemy), and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site of the great renowned city of Sybaris, whose place it may be considered as having taken. The ruins of the city can be found in the Sybaris archaeological park near Sibari in the Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy.
Thurii (/ˈθʊəriaɪ/; Latin: Thūriī, Greek: Θούρῐοι, translit. Thoúrioi), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare Greek: Θούρῐον, translit. Thoúrion...
part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written the Histories...
The naval Battle of Thurii was fought between Ancient Rome and the Greek colony of Tarentum Following the battle, Tarentum appealed to Pyrrhus, ruler of...
Archias (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχίας) of Thurii in Magna Graecia was an actor turned military agent of the Macedonian general Antipater in the 4th century BCE...
leadership in 444/43 BC which became the city Thurii built partially on top of the older city. Thurii was also destroyed in 193 BC but the Romans built...
Valerius Laevinus, and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus....
Clinomachus (Greek: Κλεινόμαχος; 4th-century BC), was a Megarian philosopher from Thurii, Magna Graecia. He is said by Diogenes Laërtius to have been the first who...
Temesa (Campora San Giovanni), Terina (Nocera Terinese), Pandosia (Acri) and Thurii, (Thurio, comune of Corigliano Calabro). Rhegion was the birthplace of one...
garrisons in the Greek cities of Thurii (on the western end of the Tarentine Gulf), Locri, and Rhegium, and sent warships to Thurii. Although this was designed...
and Tarentum. Appian wrote that the Tarentines accused the Greek city of Thurii (on the eastern coast of Calabria) of preferring the Romans to themselves...
In Ancient Greece, a deme or demos (Ancient Greek: δῆμος, plural: demoi, δήμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as...
According to Suetonius, the cognomen Thurinus (Latin: [tʰuːˈriːnʊs], "of Thurii") was added to his birth name as a toddler in 60 BC. Later, after he had...
and the archaeological sites of the Ancient Greek cities of Sybaris and Thurii which can be found a few kilometers to the southeast of the town. It also...
– third century) a tribe XV. Hadrianis was created. When the colony of Thurii on the Gulf of Taranto was settled under the support of Pericles and the...
towers and a deep trench. In the comune are the ruins of the ancient city of Thurii, a former bishopric which remains a Latin titular see as Thurio. Nearby...
collaboration with Rhegium, founded Metaurus (Gioia Tauro); Taras together with Thurii founded Heracleia (Policoro) in Lucania in 434 BC, and also Callipolis ('beautiful...
Gallipoli. Also the Greek colonies (Magna Graecia) of Kroton, Heraclea, Thurii, and Sybaris were founded on the Gulf of Taranto. Italy claims the whole...
Etruscan threat to Rome is sharply diminished. The Magna Graecia city of Thurii appeals to Rome for help against the native Italian tribes. Though the Roman...
Greek sophist born in Chios, who emigrated with his brother Dionysodorus to Thurii in Italy. When exiled from this city, he went to Athens where he lived for...
initially exclusive to patricians. 443 BC: Foundation of the Greek colony of Thurii in Italy. Its colonists include Herodotus and Lysias. 442 BC: Sophocles...
Patrocles name may refer to: Patrocles of Thurii (5th century BC), tragic poet Patrocles (coppersmith) (5th century BC), bronze worker Patrocles teacher...
which was destroyed in 510 BC. Its former inhabitants built a new city, Thurii, not far from the site of Sybaris. This new colony was founded together...
440 BC), and on the creation of new cleruchies, such as Andros, Naxos and Thurii (444 BC) as well as Amphipolis (437–436 BC). Pericles and his friends were...
expanding their raiding territory to include the towns of Nola, Nuceria, Thurii and Metapontum. The victories of the rebel slaves did not come without a...
exclusively from the patricians in Rome. Pericles founds the colony of Thurii near the site of the former city of Sybaris, in southern Italy. Its colonists...
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