ROVINE RINNEGATE, INTRAVISTE, SCOMPARSE

Abstract

The disappearance of even the ruins of a city constitutes a more serious cancellation than the destruction of the city itself,
which can happen voluntarily, as in the case of Sybaris, on which the Crotonians intentionally diverted the waters of the river for
this purpose, and to which the founders of Thurii did not want to reconnect, or as in the case of the Spartan conquest of Amphipolis,
removed from Athenian dominion by Brasidas, who, having died from wounds sustained in battle, was given as a new hecist to
the city ‘reborn’ in freedom. But even natural cataclysms can have the same ablative effect, as in Helike and Busa, in Tantalis and
Syphilos. But the action of nature, attributed to the gods, does not give rise to pretenses and lies, such as were the partisan denials
of the survival of the ruins of Sybaris. Denials aimed at a vision of the history and events of the new city, Thurii, which were intended
to be opposed to the wicked experiences lived by the lustful Sybaris.