Metapontum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 28, 2016 07:59 AM
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History
An important city of Magna Graecia, Metapontum was located on the Gulf of Tarentum. The Achaeans were responsible for its foundation, perhaps as early as the eighth century B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442658
40.38362725, 16.82523365
- DARMC location 18616 (750 BC - AD 640)
- location of theater (550 BC - AD 300)
- Metapontum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Pantanello (Italian, modern)
- None
- Hera, T. connection Metapontum (unspecified date range)
settlement, theatre, theater
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 45 E4 Metapontum
- BTCGI X, 65-112
- ICA Metapontum Bibliography (updated through 2/2005)
- Metaponto Project
- New Pauly, Metapontum
- PECS (Perseus), METAPONTION (Metaponto) Lucania, Italy
- RE Metapontum
- Smith 1854 (Perseus), METAPONTUM
- Trelogan, J. et al. 2012. The chora of Metaponto. 3,4, Archaeological field survey: Bradano to Basento; atlas. Austin TX: Inst. of Classical Archaeology.
- Wikipedia (English) Metapontum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 E4 Metapontum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Metaponto
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, Jonathan Weiland, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Metapontum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442658> [accessed: 20 April 2018]
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