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Sybaris was the rival of Croton until 510 BCE, when Croton sent an army of one hundred thousand men, commanded by the wrestler Milo, against Sybaris and destroyed it. The Pythagoreans acquired considerable influence with the supreme council of one thousand by which the city was ruled. Among his pupils were the early medical theorist Alcmaeon of Croton and the philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer Philolaus. Pythagoras founded his school, the Pythagoreans, at Croton c. Then began a period of expansion, although the victory of Locri and Rhegium over Croton in the battle of Sagra in 570 BCE, at first interrupted the advance. Democedes' fame was, according to Herodotus, the basis for the prestige of Croton's physicians. After the tyrant was murdered, Democedes was captured by the Persians and brought to King Darius, curing him of a dislocated ankle. Accordingly, he traveled around Greece and ended up working in the court of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. According to Herodotus (3.131), the physicians of Croton were considered the foremost among the Greeks, and among them Democedes, son of Calliphon, was the most prominent in the 6th century BCE. From 588 BCE onwards, Croton produced many generations of winners in the Olympics and the other Panhellenic Games, the most famous of whom was Milo of Croton. Its inhabitants were famous for their physical strength and for the simple sobriety of their lives. 710 BCE and it soon became one of the most flourishing cities of Magna Graecia with a population between 50,000 and 80,000 around 500 BCE. As of August 2018, its population was about 65,000.Ĭroton's oikistes (founder) was Myscellus, who came from the city of Rhypes in Achaea in the northern Peloponnese. In 1992, it became the capital of the newly established Province of Crotone. 710 BCE as the Achaean colony of Kroton ( Ancient Greek: Κρότων or Ϙρότων Latin: Crotona) in Magna Graecia, it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one. Crotone ( / k r oʊ ˈ t oʊ n eɪ, k r ə ˈ-/, Italian: ( listen) Crotonese: Cutrone or Cutruni) is a city and comune in Calabria, Italy.