3.3 Sybaris on Traente; Must

Sybaris was the first city to be founded between the Achaean colonies in Italy and was the first to disappear from the political scene, conquered and destroyed by the foundations in 511-510 from its neighbor Crotone, after a long rivalry and a short war. Diodorus recounts the various attempts made by the Sybarites to rebuild the city. Finally addressed an appeal to Sparta and Athens, and so it was that Pericles decided to send a Panhellenic colony. In 446-445 came the first contingent of settlers from Greece to repopulate the new Sybaris. But soon the old Sibariti are hunted and go on to found Sybaris Traente, while members of the Panhellenic colony, reinforced by new contingents of immigrants, based, in 444-443, Turi on a hill situated a little 'more inside than the sea. The town of Turi was founded according to a plan that was consistent with the conception of urban Hippodamus of Miletus who went to live there. The luck of Turi was even more short-lived than the old Sybaris. The population was divided into two rival factions, the Democrats in favor of Athens, and that of the aristocrats, partisans of Sparta. And already at the end of the fifth century, the city was exposed to the attacks of increasingly devastating Lucanis that forced her to lead a life increasingly precarious.