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City of southern Italy (area 11).
The city was founded in 720 by settlers from Peloponnese and was very prosperous for a while. It retained a reputation of luxury and lush life (hence the word "sybarite" for one living a life of pleasure and luxury ; see Herodotus, VI, 127).
The city was destroyed in 511 by neighboring Crotona (Herodotus, V, 44-45 and VI, 21). After two unsuccessful attempts at reviving the city, the panhellenic city of Thurii was created near the site of Sybaris in 444 at the instigation of Pericles.