Pandosia (Greek: Πανδοσία) was an ancient city of Bruttium (now Calabria), Italy, situated near the frontiers of Lucania (now Basilicata). Strabo describes it as a little above Consentia (modern Cosenza), the precise sense of which expression is far from clear (Strab. vi. p. 256); but Livy calls it imminentem Lucanis ac Bruttiis finibus. (Liv. viii. 24.) The site of the city is within the present-day commune of Castrolibero,commune of Acri Province of Cosenza, Calabria region. Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... Calabria (Latin: Bruttium or Brutium), is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... For the mountain in Canada named after Lucania, see Mount Lucania. ... Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the east, Calabria to the south, it has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... The Greek geographer Strabo in a 16th century engraving. ... Cosenza is a town and comune in the Calabria region of southern Italy, on the Crati River. ... A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ... Commune can refer to various things: commune (subnational entity) of various European and African countries Commune in France. ... Location of Cosenza province in Italy Castrolibero is town and comune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. ... Commune can refer to various things: commune (subnational entity) of various European and African countries Commune in France. ... ACRI, or African Crisis Initiative. ... Cosenza (It. ...

History

According to Strabo it was originally an Oenotrian town, and was even, at one time, the capital of the Oenotrian kings (Strab. l. c.); but it seems to have certainly received a Greek colony, as Scylax expressly enumerates it among the Greek cities of this part of Italy, and Scymnus Chius, though perhaps less distinctly, asserts the same thing. (Scyl. p. 4. § 12; Scymn. Ch. 326.) It was probably a colony of Crotona; though the statement of Eusebius, who represents it as founded in the same year with Metapontum, would lead us to regard it as an independent and separate colony. (Euseb. Arm. Chron. p. 99.) But the date assigned by him of 774 BCE seems certainly inadmissible. But whether originally an independent settlement or not, it must have been a dependency of Crotona during the period of greatness of that city, and hence we never find its name mentioned among the cities of Magna Graecia. Its only historical celebrity arises from its being the place near which Alexander, king of Epirus, was slain in battle with the Bruttians, 326 BCE. That monarch had been warned by an oracle to avoid Pandosia, but he understood this as referring to the town of that name in Thesprotia, on the banks of the Acheron, and was ignorant of the existence of both a town and river of the same names in Italy. (Strab. vi. p. 256 ; Livy viii. 24 ; Justin, xii. 2; Plin. iii. 11. s. 15.) The name of Pandosia is again mentioned by Livy (xxix. 38) in the Second Punic War, among the Bruttian towns retaken by the consul P. Sempronius, in 204 BCE; and it is there noticed, together with Consentia, as opposed to the ignobiles aliae civitates. It was therefore at this time still a place of some consequence; and Strabo seems to imply that it still existed in his time (Strab. l. c.), but we find no subsequent trace of it. Scylax Of Caryanda, Carian explorer. ... Croton or Crotona (present-day Crotone), in the toe of the Italian peninsula, was an Achaean colony from c. ... Eusebius is the name of several significant historical people: Pope Eusebius - Pope in AD 309 - 310. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC Decades: 820s BC 810s BC 800s BC 790s BC 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC 778 BC - Agamestor, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by... Magna Graecia around 280 b. ... Alexander I of Epirus (362 BC ca. ... Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the province of Sterea Ellada (Central Greece) to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 331 BC 330 BC 329 BC 328 BC 327 BC - 326 BC - 325 BC 324 BC 323... Thesprotia (Greek: Θεσπρωτία) is one of the prefectures of Greece. ... The Acheron is a river in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. ... A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... Combatants Image:SPQR-Stone. ... Sempronius may mean: nomen of gens Sempronia, a plebeian clan of ancient Rome Sempronius, New York, a town in Cayuga County, New York in the USA Sempronius, Texas This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... (Redirected from 204 BCE) Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC Years: 209 BC 208 BC 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC - 204 BC...

There was great difficulty in determining its position. It is described as a strong fortress, situated on a hill, which had three peaks, whence it was called, in the oracle Πανδοσία τρικόλωνος (Strab, l. c.) In addition to the vague statements of Strabo and Livy above cited, it is enumerated by Scymnus Chius between Crotona and Thurii. But it was clearly an inland town, and stood in the mountains between Consentia and Thurii. The river Acheron was evidently an inconsiderable stream, the name of which is not mentioned on any other occasion, and which, therefore, cannot be identified. Thurii, or Thueium, was a city of Magna Graecia on the Gulf of Taranto, near the site of the older Sybaris. ...

Much confusion has arisen between the Bruttian Pandosia and a town of the same name in Lucania; and some writers have even considered this last as the place where Alexander perished. (Romanelli, vol. i. pp. 261-263). It is true that Theopompus (ap. Plin. iii. 11. s. 15), in speaking of that event, described Pandosia as a city of the Lucanians, but this is a very natural error, as it was, in fact, near the boundaries of the two nations (Liv. viii. 24), and the passages of Livy (xxix. 38) and Strabo can leave no doubt that it was really situated in the land of the Bruttians. For the mountain in Canada named after Lucania, see Mount Lucania. ... Theopompus, a Greek historian and rhetorician, was born at Chios about 380 BC. In early youth he seems to have spent some time at Athens, along with his father, who had been exiled on account of his Laconian sympathies. ... The Lucani (Lucanians) were an ancient people of Italy who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages. ...

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).