Thourioi, Thurii
[coins] [Lucania map]
[city list Lucania] [info]
443 BC New Sybaris founded as an Athenian colony, close to the site of the ruined Sybaris.
425 BC Name changed to Thourioi.
334-330 BC Italian campaign of the Epeirote King Alexander the Molossian, in the course
of which he achieved a great victory over the Lucanians.
194 BC Thourioi received a Roman colony.
The name of the city was changed to Copia.
In search of Sybaris the city of Thurii was found
(Bullitt, Orville H., 1969, Search for Sybaris, J.B. Lippincott Company Philadelphia and New York).