Talk:Sybaris

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Sybiratic redirects here... which I'm sure isn't the correct page? 84.69.67.45 22:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Sybiratic is not a word afaik. If you mean Sybaritic, then yes, it is the correct page. Venetian 08:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chamber pots

The Sybarites invented the chamber pot. Source: "Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight" by Lucinda Lambton, 1995. To quote: "'The chamber pot had been invented by the Sybarites because they would not be at the trouble of moving'. So wrote the Revd Thomas Dudley Fosbroke in his Encyclopedia of Antiquities in 1825. ...How could it be that it is known who created the first chamber pot? With the help of a classicist friend, Rowland Smith, I ran the source to ground in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and will never forget the words as they were crisply and clearly translated from their original Greek: '...They too, were the first ot invent chamber pots, which they carried to their drinking parties'."

So yea... I would incorporate that into the article but I don't know where and I've got a paper to write right now.EunuchOmerta 04:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)