Sybaris

Sybaris, a Greek town of Lower Italy, was in Lucania, on the Gulf of Tarentum, and is supposed to have been colonised by Achaeans and Troezenians in 720 B.C. The inhabitants became a byword for their luxury and effeminacy, and, when attacked by a much smaller number of Crotonians were unable to hold their own. The men of Crotona turned the river through Sybaris, completely destroying it, and the inhabitants were scattered among the neighbouring cities.