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Thurii (/ˈθʊəriaɪ/; Latin:
Thūriī;
Ancient Gr****: Θούρῐοι, romanized: Thoúrioi),
called also by some
Latin writers Thūrium (compare
Ancient Gr****: Θούρῐον...
- part of the
Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a
later citizen of
Thurii in
modern Calabria, Italy. He
wrote the Histories, a
detailed account of...
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leadership in 444/43 BC
which became the city
Thurii built partially on top of the
older city.
Thurii was also destro**** in 193 BC but the
Romans built...
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Archias (Ancient Gr****: Ἀρχίας) of
Thurii in
Magna Graecia was an
actor turned military agent of the
Macedonian general Antipater in the 4th
century BCE...
- The
naval Battle of
Thurii was
fought between Ancient Rome and the Gr****
colony of
Tarentum Following the battle,
Tarentum appealed to Pyrrhus,
ruler of...
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According to Suetonius, the
cognomen Thurinus (Latin: [tʰuːˈriːnʊs], "of
Thurii") was
added to his
birth name as a
toddler in 60 BC. Later,
after he had...
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Clinomachus (Gr****: Κλεινόμαχος; 4th-century BC), was a
Megarian philosopher from
Thurii,
Magna Graecia. He is said by
Diogenes Laërtius to have been the
first who...
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rebellion in
Thurii.
These slaves had
previously taken part in the
rebellions led by
Spartacus and Catiline. Octavius'
victory over the
slaves in
Thurii led him...
- In
Ancient Greece, a deme or
demos (Ancient Gr****: δῆμος, plural: demoi, δήμοι) was a
suburb or a
subdivision of
Athens and
other city-states.
Demes as...
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Valerius Laevinus, and the
combined forces of Gr****s from Epirus, Tarentum,
Thurii, Metapontum, and
Heraclea under the
command of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus....
