Editing Sybaris (section)

=== Final expulsion in 445&nbsp;BC ===
What happened next is again uncertain. According to Diodorus, the Sybarites requested [[Sparta]] and [[Athens]] to help them reoccupy their city. With the help of Athens and some other cities in the [[Peloponnese]] they founded the city of [[Thurii]] not far from the site of Sybaris. Soon a conflict arose between the Sybarites and the other colonists of Thurii over the privileges the Sybarites enjoyed. Practically all of the Sybarites were killed by the other colonists, who were more numerous and powerful.{{sfn|Diodorus Siculus|2010|pp=192–195|loc=12.10.2–12.11.2}} Some of the Sybarites managed to flee and founded [[Sybaris on the Traeis]] shortly after 444&nbsp;BC.{{sfnm|Diodorus Siculus|2010|1loc=12.22.1|Wonder|2012|2p=133}}

The request for help from the Sybarites must have been made after the conclusion of the [[Thirty Years' Peace]] in the early spring of 445&nbsp;BC, for it would not have made sense to ask for help while Sparta and Athens were still at war with each other.{{sfn|Diodorus Siculus|2010|pp=192|loc=footnote 50}} While Diodorus identifies only one expedition for the foundation of Thurii, Strabo writes that the Athenian and other Greek colonists first lived in Sybaris and only founded Thurii after the expulsion of the Sybarites.{{sfn|Strabo|1924|loc=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+6.1.13 6.1.13]}} Modern scholarship corroborates Strabo's account and identifies two expeditions. In 446/445&nbsp;BC Athens sent its expedition to reinforce the existing population of Sybaris. In the summer of 445&nbsp;BC the collision between the two groups led to the downfall of the Sybarites. In 444/443&nbsp;BC the Athenians and other new colonists then turned the city into a new foundation called Thurii. The city received a new democratic constitution which made provisions for ten tribes, but which did not include the Sybarites.{{sfnm|Diodorus Siculus|2010|1pp=192–194|1loc=footnotes 51, 54 and 57|Lewis|1992|2pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nqbz8Emo3PIC&pg=PA141 141–142]}}