Editing Sybaris (section)

=== Continued struggle with Kroton ===

[[File:Sybaris nomos 453 92000187.jpg|thumb|[[Nummus|Noummos]] of Sybaris, c. 452–446 BC. [[Poseidon]] with a [[trident]] is on the [[Obverse and reverse|obverse]] and the bull symbol on the reverse, suggesting a link with Poseidonia.]]
After its destruction the surviving inhabitants took refuge at their colonies Laüs and Scidrus.{{sfn|Herodotus|1922|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+6.21.1 6.21.1]}} It is assumed some also fled to Poseidonia, because in the early fifth century Poseidonia's coins adopted the Achaean weight standard and the bull seen on Sybarite coins. A. J. Graham thinks it was plausible that the number of refugees was large enough for some kind of [[synoecism]] to have occurred between the Poseidonians and the Sybarites, possibly in the form of a [[Sympoliteia (treaty)|sympolity]].{{sfn|Graham|1999|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=z6XnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA114 114]}} Sybaris was not completely destroyed, as Diodorus and Strabo claimed, but became a dependent "ally" of Kroton. "Alliance" coins show the tripod symbol of Kroton on one side and the bull symbol of Sybaris on the other side. Literary evidence from [[Aristoxenus]] attests of [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagoreans]] who apparently moved to Sybaris after its subjugation by Kroton.{{sfn|Zhmud|2012|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=of-ghBD9q1QC&pg=PA97 97]}}

Diodorus Siculus mentions that Kroton besieged Sybaris again in 476/475&nbsp;BC. The Sybarites appealed to the tyrant [[Hiero I of Syracuse]] for help. Hiero put his brother Polyzelos in command of an army to relieve the Sybarites, expecting that he would be killed by the Krotoniates. Polyzelos suspected this, refused to lead the campaign and took refuge with the tyrant [[Theron of Acragas]].{{sfn|Diodorus Siculus|2010|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA107 107–108]|loc=11.48.1–5}} Diodorus makes no further mention of Hiero's plan to relieve Sybaris, indicating that the Sybarites were defeated again. However, according to [[Timaeus (historian)|Timaeus]] and two [[scholia]] Polyzelos was successful in relieving the siege of Sybaris and fled to [[Agrigento|Acragas]] later when he was accused of plotting revolution.{{sfnm|Rhodes|2006|1p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=5fkjzwJxCA4C&pg=PA9 75]|Diodorus Siculus|2010|2pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA108 108–109]|2loc=footnote 185}}

Regardless of the results of the siege of 476&nbsp;BC, it seems the Sybarites had to leave their city at some point between that year and 452/451&nbsp;BC. Diodorus writes that the Sybarites refounded their city at its former site in 452/451&nbsp;BC under the leadership of a [[Ancient Thessaly|Thessalian]].{{sfnm|Diodorus Siculus|2010|1p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA173 173]|1loc=11.90.3|Diodorus Siculus|2010|2pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA191 191–192]|2loc=12.10.2}} It is thought that Poseidonia had a major share in this because the coins of the new city have a great resemblance to those of Poseidonia. Possibly a treaty of friendship between Sybaris, its allies and the Serdaioi (an unknown people) dates to this new foundation, because Poseidonia was the guarantor of this treaty.{{sfn|Rutter|1970|p=173}} Ultimately the Sybarites were again driven off by the Krotoniates from their new city in 446/445&nbsp;BC.{{sfnm|Diodorus Siculus|2010|1p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA173 173]|1loc=11.90.4|Diodorus Siculus|2010|2pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=InAjXetbsBkC&pg=PA191 191–192]|2loc=12.10.2}}