KAULONIA
Bruttium, Calabria, Italy.
On the
E coast between Krotone and Lokroi Epizephyroi near
modern Punta Stilo and the town of Monasterace Marina. Founded from Kroton in the 7th c. B.C., it became
a center of Pythagoreanism and was destroyed by Dionysios I of Syracuse in 389 B.C. Rebuilt in the 4th c. B.C.,
it is mentioned in connection with events of the second
Punic war, but by the 1st c. B.C. the site had already
been abandoned.
Excavations conducted early in this century established the perimeter of the city walls and led to the
discovery of houses of the Hellenistic period and the
foundations of a peripteral temple in the Castellone
district. There is an important deposit of architectural
terracottas from the acropolis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Orsi, “Caulonia,”
MonAnt 22 (1915)
686ff; S. P. Noe,
The Coinage of Caulania (Numismatic
Studies, 9, 1958); G. Schmiedt & R. Chevalier,
Caulonia e Metaponto (1959; also in
Universo 39 [1959]);
G. Foti in
Santuari di Magna Grecia, Atti del Quarto
Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (1965) 143-46.
R. HOLLOWAY
