Sybaris
Sign in to saveSybaris (; ) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Sybaris
- Ancient site.native_name
- ΣύβαριςSibari
- Ancient site.image
- Sibari-scavi-teatro.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Remains of the theatre of Sybaris
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Sibari, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
- Ancient site.region
- Magna Graecia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.area
- Approximately
- Ancient site.builder
- Achaean and Troezenian colonists
- Ancient site.built
- 720 BC
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 445 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Archaic Greece to Classical Greece
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1960s
- Ancient site.management
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Calabria
- Ancient site.website
- ArcheoCalabriaVirtual
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Name
- History
- Foundation
- Prosperity in the 7th and 6th century BC
- Ancient patent law
- Subjugation by Kroton
- Continued struggle with Kroton
- Final expulsion in 445 BC
- Legacy
- Archaeology
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Further reading
- External links
Sybaris (; ) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.
The city was founded around 720 BC by Achaean and Troezenian settlers. Ten years later, Achaeans founded the nearby great city of Kroton. Sybaris amassed great wealth thanks to its fertile land and busy port so that it was known as the wealthiest colony of the Greek Archaic world. Its inhabitants became famous among the Greeks for their hedonism, feasts, and excesses, to the extent that "sybarite" and "sybaritic" have become bywords for opulence, luxury, and outrageous pleasure-seeking. Sybaris ruled smaller colonies throughout the area, and had an acropolis at Timpone della Motta near Francavilla Marittima about 10 km distant.