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Myscellus of Rhypes

8th century BCE · 8th century BCE · Also known as Myscellus

Myscellus of Rhypes was the legendary founder (oikist) of Croton in southern Italy, around 710 BCE. Ancient writers such as Strabo and Diodorus say that the Delphic oracle sent him, an Achaean from the town of Rhypes, to found the city, and that he would have preferred the richer site of Sybaris but was told to obey the god.

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