🏛️ Tarentum-Metapontum
Overlapping ancient Greek colonies in southern Italy
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Apulia (Puglia), southeastern Italy, near modern Taranto
- Tarentum founded circa 706 BCE by Spartan colonists; Metapontum founded circa 630 BCE by Achaean Greeks
- Both cities were major centers of Magna Graecia, the Greek colonial world in southern Italy
- Archaeological remains include temples, theater structures, and extensive pottery deposits
Tarentum and Metapontum represent two of the most significant settlements of Magna Graecia, the network of Greek colonies ...