our visite in taranto
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Class I V A
Th eFO U N D AT
IO N Taranto is a Spartan colony.
The foundation of Taranto dates around the year 706 a. C.
The circumstances of the foundation are known to us f rom the story of Antiochus of Syracuse and Ephorus of Cuma Eolica.
The myth of Phalantus
To Phalanthus the oracle of Delphi has declared:
"When you see rain from the blue sky, conquer territories and cities.."
The hero, seeing his wife ETHRA crying, thought that the prophecy had come true and proceeded to found the city of Saturion.
An another t radit ion
Another tradition says that the name of Saturn is derived f rom a local nymph named Satyr, beloved by Poseidon, f rom their union was born the hero Taras, f rom which the settlers have taken the name of the colony, Taras
The f irst port of call was brief and then Saturn, f rom which he derived the colony Taranto.
Th e a r e a o f t h e c o lo n y
The area where he built the new town is located in the inner part of the gulf , near the Mar Piccolo.
TAR AN TO The BRIDGE THE ISLAND
The OLD CITY
Th ec e m e t e r ie
s The cemeteries
provide information about the society of Taranto. The tombs were done by burial or cremation.
I n Taranto you may encounter dif ferent types of tombs, "chamber", "a semi-chamber" and "grave."
TH E D O R IC
TEM P LEThe surviving
archaeological remains have not provided data useful for identif ication of the deity to who the temple was dedicated. I t
houses three Doric columns of the northern peristyle. The new tests
have conf irmed the dating of the sacred in
the Archaic period, precisely at the end of the f irst quarter of the
sixth century BC
EXCAVATI ONS AT THE CHURCH AND CONVENT
OF SAN DOMENI CO
The National Archaeological Museum
THE JEWELS OF TARANTO
THE COI NS OF TARANTOThe image is depicted on Greek coins of Magna Graecia, but the identity of the young is not clear. Literary sources disagree on: according to Aristotle he would be Taras, according to Pausanias Phalanthus, the founder of the city, carried to safety by a dolphin on land.
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