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TERINA Cantazaro, S Italy.

The city was founded by Kroton at the beginning of the 5th c. B.C. Later it passed under several different rules until it was destroyed during the second Punic war. Most recent studies identify the ancient site with unexcavated remains in the abbey of S. Eufemia Vecchia; but others with Nocera Terinese. Terina is best known for its coinage (480-400 B.C.).


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Scymn. 306ff; Pliny HN 3.72; Solin. 2.10.

RE s.2 51 725-27; J. Bérard, Bibliographie topographique des principales cités grecques de l'Italie méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'antiquité (1941) 112; EAA 7 (1966) 714-15; M. Napoli, Civiltà della Magna Grecia (1969) 181-84; P. Zancani-Montuoro, “Dov'era Temessa?” RendNap, NS 44 (1969) 14ff.

J. P. SMALL

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