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Sybarites took the
field with an army of
three hundred thousand men. The
Crotonians had but an
hundred thousand,
which were
commanded by Milo the wrestler...
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point now
known as Capo Colonna.
Crotonians and
Sybarites would later become rivals. But meanwhile, the
Crotonians founded the
colonies of
Caulonia (near...
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Phintys was a
Pythagorean philosopher,
probably from the
third century BC. She
wrote a work on the
correct behaviour of women, two
extracts of
which are...
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Eurytus (/ˈjʊərɪtəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Εὔρυτος; fl. 400 BC) was an
eminent Pythagorean philosopher from
Magna Graecia who
Iamblichus in one p****age describes...
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Democedes of
Croton (/ˌdɛmoʊˈsiːdiːz/; Gr****: Δημοκήδης),
described in The
Histories of
Herodotus as "the most
skillful physician of his time". Democedes...
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Croton and when
Telys asked them to hand over the
Sybarite exiles, the
Crotonians refused and
Sybaris began the war.
Croton sent an army of 100,000 men...
- Myia (/ˈmaɪ.ə/;
Ancient Gr****: Μυῖα,
literally "Fly"; fl. c. 500 BC) was a
Pythagorean philosopher and,
according to
later tradition, one of the daughters...
- for
their national hero Ajax. Once in a
battle between the
Locrians and
Crotonians in Italy,
Autoleon wanted to
penetrate into this
vacant place, hoping...
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Brontinus of
Metapontum (Gr****: Βροντῖνος, also Brotinus, Βροτῖνος; fl. 6th
century BCE),
Magna Graecia, was a
Pythagorean philosopher and a
friend and...
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Pythagoreanism (495 BC),
refusing to
escape with his
students from the
Crotonians through a fava bean
field "All
compounded things are
subject to vanish...
