- Look up
Tarentum or
Taranto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tarentum may
refer to: Taranto, Apulia, Italy, on the site of the
ancient Roman city of...
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Tarentum is a
borough in
Allegheny County in the U.S.
state of Pennsylvania. It is 22
miles (35 km)
northeast of
Downtown Pittsburgh,
along the Allegheny...
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music theorist, statesman, and
strategist from the
ancient city of
Taras (
Tarentum) in
Southern Italy. He was a
scientist and
philosopher affiliated with...
- king of Epirus, who had been
asked by the
people of the Gr**** city of
Tarentum in
southern Italy to help them in
their war
against the Romans. A skilled...
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Sosibius (Gr****: Σωσίβιoς;
lived 3rd
century BC) was a
Tarentine from
Magna Graecia, one of the
captains of the body-guards of
Ptolemy Philadelphus (283–246...
- The Gulf of
Taranto (Italian:
Golfo di Taranto; Tarantino:
Gurfe de Tarde; Latin:
Sinus Tarentinus) is a gulf of the
Ionian Sea, in
Southern Italy. The...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Phalanthos (Ancient Gr****: Φάλανθος) is a
divine hero, the
leader of the
Spartan Partheniae and the
founder of Taranto,
Magna Graecia...
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Aristoxenus of
Tarentum (Gr****: Ἀριστόξενος ὁ Ταραντῖνος; born c. 375, fl. 335 BC) was a Gr****
Peripatetic philosopher, and a
pupil of Aristotle. Most...
- of
Tarentum of 209 BC took
place during the
Second Punic War. The Romans, led by
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus,
recaptured the city of
Tarentum that...
- it.
Various reports give the
birthplace of
Philolaus as
either Croton,
Tarentum, or Metapontum—all part of
Magna Graecia (the name of the
coastal areas...
