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Taras (Tarentum)

Taras was a city founded by Spartan colonists; it was the only important colony of Sparta outside of Greece during the great migration or colonisation period.

The city became a focal point of resistance against Rome's hegemony in Italy; Taras welcomed King Pyrrhus of Epeirus. In the end, Taras fell into Roman dominance after Pyrrhus' defeat and withdrawal from Italy, and the city was renamed Tarentum. Today, the city is called Taranto.

No important myth or legend is associated with Taras, though Virgil did mention it as being the town of Hercules (Heracles) in the Aeneid and Ovid mentioned Tarentum only in reference to the foundation of Croton, by Myscelus (Metamorphoses, book 15).

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Taras, Τάρας, Tarantas (Greek).
Tarentum (Latin);
Taranto (modern).

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Croton

Croton

Croton was a coastal city in Calabria, southern Italy. It was founded by Achaean Greeks around 710 BC. There is no myth regarding Croton, but Philoctetes founded a town in Crimissa, near Croton, after the Trojan War. Philoctetes was the Greek lead...

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Apulia

Apulia

Apulia was a region that resembled the heel of a boot in Italy, now known as the Salentina (Salentine) peninsula, in southeast Italy. Apulia is now called Puglia. It was also called Iapygia, after the Iapyges. A number of Greek cities were founded...

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Etruria

Etruria

The people who spoke the extinct Etruscan language were called Etruscans by the Romans, but Tyrrhenians or Tyrrenians by the Greeks. The sea was named after the Etruscans - the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their land was called Etruria, a region that comprised...

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Calabria

Calabria

The peninsula in the south of Italy that looks like the foot of a boot. Historically, many of the Greek cities were founded in this region, including Croton and Rhegion. Not much myth in this region. Perhaps the most notable was that Heracles trav...

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Dardania

Dardania

Dardania was a Phrygian city situated on the foot of Mount Ida. Dardania had a close relationship with Troy . During the reign of Laomedon , Troy became the more powerful city of the two cities. However, the House of Dardania was much older by few...

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Sparta

Sparta

Sparta was founded by Lacedaemon and named after his wife, Sparta . Sparta was often called Lacedaemon. The city located on the river of Eurotas. They had a son named Amyclas , who ruled after Lacedaemon. Amyclas founded a small neighbouring city,...

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Tyre

Tyre

Tyre (modern Sur) was a principal coastal city of southern Phoenicia. The Greeks often confused Tyre with Sidon, its northern neighbour. Sidon was a colony of Tyre. Its city was built on the island and the mainland. Like Byblus, it was famous for ...

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Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia was a large island west of Italy and south of the island of Corisca . According Apollodorus, Iolaus , nephew of Heracles , aided the Heraclids in migrating to Sardinia. These Heraclids were the sons of Thespius' 49 daughters. Thespius was...

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Syracuse

Syracuse

Syracuse was one of the Greek cities in Sicily. The city was found by the Corinthians in 734 BC, located on the east coast, partly on the island of Ortygia, flanked by the Lesser Harbour and Great Harbour. Syracuse proper was on the island of Orty...

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House of Troy and Dardania

House of Troy and Dardania

The first ruler of the region around Troad was Teucer, the son of the river god Scamander. It was Dardanus , son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra , who founded the kingdom and the dynasty of Dardania and Troy (or Ilium). Often, the names of the Dard...

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