Croton
place · 3 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Crotonian territory · the men of Croton
in the texts
The Histories
Greek city in southern Italy, home city of the physician Democedes and renowned for producing the best physicians in the Greek world.
Croton and the most skillful physician of his time.
Now this is how Democedes had come from Croton to live with Polycrates:
Thus he came to Samos, and not least because of this man the physicians of Croton were well-respected [ for at this time the best physicians in Greek countries were those of Croton, and next to them those of Cyrene.
Orations
Italian Greek city, once powerful, now desolate.
And Croton and Thurii and Metapontum and Tarentum, having flourished to so great a height and once had so great power, of what city are they not now more desolate?
But for myself, O Fortune—for it is to you, perhaps, that the speech might justly be addressed—if someone were to raise me on high and carry me aloft upon the back of some Pegasus, or upon the winged chariot of Pelops, spreading out beneath me the whole earth and its cities, I would not choose the luxury of the Lydians, nor the frugality of Attica, nor the poverty of Laconia, nor Croton—for they a …
History of the Peloponnesian War
Territory of the Greek city of Croton in southern Italy, which the Athenian army must bypass.
Now Demosthenes and Eurymedon, when the Thurians were prepared to join them in the expedition with seven hundred heavy-armed and three hundred dart-men, gave orders for the ships to coast along towards the Crotonian territory;
When they were on the banks of the river Hylias, and the Crotonians sent to them, and said that they should not choose the army to pass through their territory, they descended towards the shore, and encamped for the night by the sea, at the mouth of the Hylias, their ships also meeting them at the same point.