Sybaris
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 29, 2026 11:27 AM
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History
Strabo describes the now-unlocated spring called Sybaris in Achaia and suggests that this toponym is one of several that transfer to the Italian peninsula and lend their names to features there as part of Greek colonialism.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573537
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- κρήνης Σύβαρις (Το) (krēnēs Sybaris: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Sybaris (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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unlocated, spring
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 Sybaris
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: spring in Achaea
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sybaris: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/573537> [accessed: 08 June 2026]
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