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Diodorus Siculus, Library | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Polybius, Histories | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Rhetoric (ed. J. H. Freese) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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These,
then, were the events in Sicily. And in Italy the city of Thurii came to be founded,In 444 B.C., two years later than by Diodorus' chronology. for the
following reasons. When in former times the Greeks had founded Sybaris in Italy, the city had enjoyed a
rapid growth because of the fertility of the land. For lying
as the city did between two rivers, the Crathis and the Sybaris, from which it derived its name, its inhabitants, who tilled an extensive
and fruitful countryside, came to possess great riches. And since they kept granting
citizenship to many aliens, they increased to such an extent that they were considered to be
far the first among the inhabitants of Italy; indeed
they so excelled in population that the city possessed three hundred thousand
citizens.Now there arose among the Sybarites a leader of the
people named Telys,In 511
B.C. who brought charges against the most influential men and persuaded the Sybarites t