Metapontum

American  

[met-uh-pon-tuhm] / ˌmɛt əˈpɒn təm /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.

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Example Sentences

There wasn’t a soul here besides us, no tourists with cameras, no yammering tour guides, just a few lizards skittering about, so it was easy to imagine what it would have been like here in the eighth century B.C. when the city of Metapontum rose up on the edge of the Ionian Sea, part of the Magna Graecia colony.

From New York Times

To Achaea belonged the south Italian towns of Croton, Metapontum and Sybaris.

From Project Gutenberg

Transcribers notes On page 30 Megapontum has been left as printed, though the author probably meant Metapontum.

From Project Gutenberg

Again disappearing, 240 years later he was at Metapontum, and commanded the inhabitants to raise a statue to himself and an altar to Apollo, whom he had accompanied in the form of a raven, at the founding of the city.

From Project Gutenberg

Metapontum founded by Achæans and Crissæans according to Eusebius, book II. ch.

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