Thurii

Italy, when the city Sybaris, which now was called Thurii, was to be repeopled.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

From Metapontum to Thurii and perhaps beyond, the insurgents had brought fire, death, and freedom.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

At Thurii they could finally settle down to train.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Spartacus had once scored a great coup here; Thurii is the only city that he and his men ever captured.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Eleven years after the end of the great uprising, the last of the rebels men still controlled the hills around the plain of Thurii in Bruttium.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Crixuss group remained in southern Italy but not in Thurii.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Spartacus, for his part, seems to have moved northward from Thurii into northwestern Lucania, perhaps back into the fertile Campus Atinas, where his men had rampaged a year earlier.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

The west coast, facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, suffers harsher conditions than the east coast, on the Ionian Sea; the rebels in Bruttium would have missed the mild winter around Thurii.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

It may have been around this time that the insurgents raided the city of Consentia modern Cosenza, the capital of the Bruttii, an inland town located on the Via Annia about fifty miles south of Thurii.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

The Senate now decided to wipe out the maroon communities around Thurii.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009