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🌍 Taras (Italy)

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8188478" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8188478">👤 Heracles </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8189868" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8189868">👤 the Nemean Lion </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="10113297" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_10113297">👤 Taras (eponym) </span>
  • Alternative names
    Taranto
    Information
    city in Southern Italy, modern Taranto
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3981082
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442810
    Founded by
    👤 Taras (eponym)
    Eponym
    👤 Taras (eponym)
    Related Entities
    👤 Heracles  👤 Oibalos  👤 Taras (eponym)  🌍 River Taras (Italy)  🌍 Metapontion (Italy)  👤 Leucippos (Achaian)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 10.10.8 📖 Strabo 6.1.15 📖 Strabo 6.3.2 📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.125-4.133 📖 Callimachus fr. 617 Pfeiffer
    Mentioned in Text
    Pausanias Strabo Callimachus Vergil, Georgics
    Depictions
    🎨 Tarentine Silver Stater (Otago E2021.64)
    Commissioned depictions of
    👤 Heracles  👤 the Nemean Lion  👤 Taras (eponym)
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