Sybaris
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Italian Greek city known for extreme luxury and rapid downfall.
For those without trial of luxury and villainy — these, I say, fare better.
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 …
The Histories
The city defeated by Croton in this war, near which a shrine attributed to Dorieus stands as evidence in the Sybarite account.
The Sybarites point to a precinct and a temple beside the dry bed of the Crathis, which, they say, Dorieus founded in honor of Athena of Crathis after he had helped to take their city.
Now at this time, as the Sybarites say, they and their king Telys were making ready to march against Croton, and the men of Croton, who were very much afraid, entreated Dorieus to come to their aid.
From Italy came Smindyrides of Sybaris, son of Hippocrates, the most luxurious liver of his day (and Sybaris was then at the height of its prosperity), and Damasus of Siris, son of that Amyris who was called the Wise.