Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Thronium, Thurii

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Thurii

（Θούριοι), more rarely Thurium (Θούριον). Now Terra Nuova; a Greek city in Lucania, founded B.C. 443, near the site of the ancient Sybaris, which had been destroyed more than sixty years before. (See Sybaris.) It was built by the remains of the population of Sybaris, assisted by

Coin of Thurii. (Fourth century B.C.)

colonists from all parts of Greece, but especially from Athens. Among these colonists were the historian Herodotus and the orator Lysias. The new city, from which the remains of the Sybarites were soon expelled, rapidly attained great power and prosperity, and became one of the most important Greek towns in the south of Italy. See Pappritz, Thurii (1890).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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