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Hippodamus
Hippodamus , fl. 5th cent. BC, Greek architect, b. Miletus. He was the first to plan cities according to geometric layouts. For Pericles he remodeled Piraeus (the port of Athens). He also planned (408) the city of Rhodes and went with the Athenian colonists to replan (c.440) the new city of Thurii i... Read more
Sybaris
Sybaris , ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded in 720 BC by Achaeans and people from Argolis, the Troezenians. It became a wealthy Greek city, and its inhabitants were reputed to live voluptuous lives, hence the word sybaritic. ... Read more
Spartacus
Spartacus , d. 71 BC, leader in an ancient Italian slave revolt, b. Thrace. He broke out (73 BC) of a gladiators' school at Capua and fled to Mt. Vesuvius, where many fugitives joined him. Their army defeated several Roman forces and moved north, devastating S Italy and Campania; Spartacus' aim was ... Read more
Herodotus
Herodotus , 484?-425? BC, Greek historian, called the Father of History, b. Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. Only scant knowledge of his life can be gleaned from his writings and from references to him by later writings, notably the Suda. He traveled along the coast of Asia Minor to the northern islands... Read more
Pericles
Pericles , c.495-429 BC, Athenian statesman. He was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family through his mother, a niece of Cleisthenes. He first came to prominence as an opponent of the Areopagus (462) and as one of the prosecutors of Cimon , whom he replaced in influence. From then on he was the p... Read more

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Thurii
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Thurii , ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum...among them the city planner Hippodamus and possibly Herodotus and Lysias. Thurii became an ally of Rome and was pillaged (204 BC) by Hannibal. Rome revived...
Spartacus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...southern Italy, eventually establishing winter quarters at Thurii and Metapontum in Lucania. There their forces grew to 70...the field. He then returned to southern Italy and again made Thurii his headquarters. In the autumn of 72 the Senate transferred...
Magna Graecia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cities of Magna Graecia (those colonized from Greece, except Thurii and Elea, go back to the 8th or early 7th cent. BC; those...Tarentum), Siris (from Colophon), Sybaris (from Achaea), Thurii (from Athens, replacing Sybaris), Crotona (from Achaea...
Pericles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Phidias and others produced such monuments as the Parthenon and the Propylaea on the Acropolis. Pericles established colonies at Thurii in Italy and at Amphipolis. He was one of the participants in the events that led to the Peloponnesian War . The war, which...
Herodotus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Mesopotamia, Babylon, and Egypt. By 447 BC he was in Athens, and in 443 he seems to have helped to found the Athenian colony of Thurii in S Italy, where he probably spent the rest of his life completing his history. That classic work, the first comprehensive...
Theocritus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...best source for the biography of Theocritus is his own poems. He was a native of Syracuse who was familiar with Croton and Thurii in southern Italy, the island of Cos, Miletus, and Alexandria. He was born by at least 310 B.C., and probably earlier...
Hippodamus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Pericles he remodeled Piraeus (the port of Athens). He also planned (408) the city of Rhodes and went with the Athenian colonists to replan (c.440) the new city of Thurii in Italy. Other cities of the ancient world followed his methods.
Protagoras
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...frequent visitor to Athens, being a friend of Pericles, and was said to have aided in framing the constitution for the colony of Thurii, which the Athenians established in southern Italy in 444/443 B.C. Plato said that Protagoras spent 40 years teaching...
Sybaris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...word sybaritic. The Troezenians, ejected by the Achaeans, obtained the help of neighboring Crotona and destroyed the city in 510 BC Thurii was supposedly built on the site. Bibliography: See O. H. Bullitt, Search for Sybaris (1969).

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Halicarnassus, Caria, Asia Minor, fifth century b.c.; d . Thurii, near the site of Sybaris, southern Italy, 430 –...known Mediterranean world of his day and eventually settled in Thurii. Apart from Greece and Italy, he visited Scythia, the Bosporus...
Hippodamus of Miletus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...grid-pattern. He may have designed Miletus, Asia Minor (from c. 475 BC), Piraeus, near Athens ( c. 470 BC), and Thurii (Thourioi), Italy ( c. 443 BC), but he is remembered as one of the earliest theorists of the Ideal City , and through...