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Metapontum - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) At the time of the Athenian expedition to Sicily (415 B.C.) Metapontum appears to have been an opulent and powerful city, whose alliance was courted by the Athenians; but it contented itself with a very trifling support. From this time Metapontum sank; though it was still existing in the days of Cicero, Pausanias tells us that in his time nothing remained of it but a theatre and the circuit of the walls. Metapontum has the remains of two temples, both of which seem to belong to the period 510-480 B.C. (Koldewey and Puchstein, Die griechischen Tempel in Unteritalien and Sicilien, Berlin, 18 99, pp. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Metapontum   (455 words)

ICA/UT: Metapontum Introduction Metapontum was founded by Achaean Greek settlers from the northern Peloponnese in the late 7th century BC. A brief revitalization in the 4th century was followed by involvement in the 3rd century in two devastating wars against the advancing Romans, which dramatically reduced the population in both city and countryside. From Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries AD) to the 19th century the "Metapontino" (as the former colonial chora came to be known) was occupied by a few isolated farmsteads and hamlets; the majority of the population withdrew into hilltop towns like Bernalda and Pisticci to escape the swampy conditions along the coast. www.utexas.edu /research/ica/metaponto/index.htm   (719 words)

Metapontum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Metapontum or Metapontium (Greek: Μεταπόντιον: Thuc., Strab., and all Greek writers have this form; the Latins almost universally Metapontum), was an important city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus (modern Basiento). The ruins of Metapontum are located in the frazione of Metaponto, in the commune of Bernalda, in the Province of Matera, Basilicata region, Italy. Metapontum was thus situated between the two rivers Bradanus and Casuentus (Basiento), and occupied (with its port and appurtenances) a considerable part of the intermediate space. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metapontum   (2021 words)

lucania - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Metapontum was an Achaean colony of remote antiquity, which, after having been destroyed, was refounded from Sybaris, under the leader- ship of Leukippos, early in the sixth century B.C. It occupied a plain of extraordinary fertility on the Gulf of Tarentum, between the rivers Bradanos and Kasuentos. Among the other divinities to whose worship at Metapontum the coins of the fifth century bear witness, are Herakles, who is said to have rested in the Metapontine plain while bringing the oxen of Geryon across Italy, and Apollo. In this period Metapontum appears to have assimilated her coinage to that of Thurium, and to have adopted a divisional system by two and four instead of by three and six. www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=lucania   (4809 words)

[No title] At the time of the Athenian expedition to Sicily (415 B.C.) Metapontum appears to have been an opulent and powerful city, whose affiance was courted by the Athenians; but it con-tented itself with a very trifling support. Metapontum has the remains of two temples, both of which seem to belong to the period 510–480 B.C. (Koldewey and Puchstein, Die griechischen Tempel in Unteritalien and Sicilien, Berlin, 1899, pp. The so-called Chiesa di Sansone, which lay within the ancient town, and was probably dedicated to Apollo Lycius, was a peripteros measuring 186 by 911 ft., of which only the foundations are left. encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=44813   (456 words)

Metapontum - English introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) In chess profit is made at the losers expense, in Metapontum the advantage of the one is inextricably intertwined with the profit of the other; the move must be mutually advantageous. The Metapontum Foundation lacks such funds, but Frenkel and his wife Ineke are confident that, God willing, it will take off on a grander scale in the future. Metapontum can be used as a model to demonstrate aspects of Civil Rights in a context of a social and moral philosophy. home-1.worldonline.nl /~sttdc/metapeng.htm   (1577 words)

METAPONTUM (Gr. Meraao... - Online Information article about METAPONTUM (Gr. Meraao... Metapontum was one of the cities that played a conspicuous See also: Sicily (415 B.C.) Metapontum appears to have been an opulent and powerful city, whose affiance was courted by the Athenians; but it See also: Metapontum has the remains of two temples, both of which seem to belong to the See also: encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/METAPONTUM_Gr_Meraaovrtov_mod_M.html   (684 words)

Filosofie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Metapontum exhibits a remarkable similarity with the Christian philosophy of grace and redemption. Metapontum knows like chess a social structure and a hierarchy, however, not only the board, the pieces too have undergone a metamorphosis. Metapontum has been projected from the feudalistic era of war and check mate into the newly promised World of peace, beauty, order and enlightenment for citizens and cultures. www.metapontumforpeace.org /filosofieomkeringENG.htm   (1030 words)

Filosofie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The Metapontum game was conceived and developed by Hans Theo Frenkel, a former lecturer of Hindu philosophy from 1969 to 1980 at the State University of Albany New York. In 1977 the idea of Metapontum, which means the bridge beyond (war), was born. Strolling in the garden Frenkel contemplated the parallels and analogies of the chess problem and the war policies of the US and USSR in which the pawns are like the young men who must die for the wrong ideas of their leaders. www.metapontumforpeace.org /filosofieontstaanENG.htm   (868 words)

Metaponto,Basilicata,Metaponto Basilicata,Basilicata,Metaponto The ancient Metapontum, today Metaponto, was born on the site where the mouths of the Basento and Bradano rivers meet the sea on the Ionian coast. Metapontum was apparently founded by Greek colonists who settled on a hill on the Tavole Palantine in the 8th century BC. The town developed slightly farther south in the 6th-7th Centuries B.C. Often allied with Sybaris and Croton, Metapontum was a significant trading emporium, especially for the export of cereals; indeed an ear of corn was impressed upon the city's coins. www.italianvisits.com /basilicata/metaponto   (570 words)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 35 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) His story, which probably refers to the emigration of a branch of the Aeolians to the west, is thus related : Arne declared to her father that she was with child by Poseidon, but her father disbelieving her state­ment, gave her to a stranger of Metapontum in Italy, who took her to his native town. Here she became mother of two sons, Boeotus and Aeo­lus (iii.), who were adopted by the man of Meta­pontum in accordance with an oracle. But when a dispute afterwards arose between their mother Arne and their foster-mother Autolyte, the two brothers slew the latter and fled with their mother from Metapontum. www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0044.html   (1072 words)

ICA/UT: Metapontum Scientific Research The study of ancient plant life in the chora of Metapontum began with the discovery at Pantanello (1978) of rich and varied deposits of organic remains including pollen, miraculously preserved in anaerobic levels of the spring-sanctuary, and the participation of Lorenzo Costantini. The existence of traces, unique in the West, of ancient features interpreted as evidence of land division (see also Chersonesos) stimulated an investigation of the relation of human settlement in the chora of Metapontum to the underlying geological and hydrological structure of the landscape by Robert Folk (1980-1981). The detailed study of the regional geomorphology (1991-1994) by James Abbott has proved essential to a full understanding of the results of the field survey and the changing pattern of human settlement from prehistoric times to the present (see Croton, Chersonesos). www.utexas.edu /research/ica/metaponto/meta_sci_rsch.htm   (310 words)

Jessica Gath Hippasus of Metapontum was the disciple of Pythagoras to whom is attributed the discovery that √2 is an irrational number, thus proving the existence of irrational numbers. Pythagoras could not disprove the existence of irrational numbers through logic but his beliefs would not allow for them or the implication that all numbers are not ratios of integers and thus absolute. The only rule is that they must not be altered such that they can no longer return from whence they came. www.jessicagath.org   (521 words)

Who Are Metapontum Agrobios manages several important biotechnological projects aimed to obtain insects and virus resistant plants and improve quality of industrial and agronomic species. Metapontum Agrobios is also involved in projects to monitor, analyse and decontaminate polluted sites. Metapontum Agrobios manages its research programs in close collaboration with other national and international research centres. www.agrobios.it /inglese/en_Chi.htm   (313 words)

The Eagle Has Landed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) He moves to Metapontum by way of Gnathia, thus avoiding paying the attrition cost for Calabria (see the set up above), at a total cost of 6 Attrition Points (2 for Apulia, 3 for Lucania, 1 for crossing an un-bridged river. But Pyrrhus was not idle, and upon receiving reports that the Romans were advancing toward him, he led his army out of the city and to battle. Upon receiving news of the great victory at Metapontum, Sositratus of Syracuse embarked upon a campaign against the Syracusan's hated enemies the Mamertines, and to lay siege to their capital. pathirtle.i8.com /280.htm   (2592 words)

A Traveller Suddenly the Ionian Sea sprawls beyond the sands of Metapontum, an ancient city on the Basilicata coast of Southern Italy, filling the horizon, deep blue against impending dusk. Once a Greek colony, Metapontum remains the site of the Tempio extraurbano di Hera, the City Temple of Hera, queen of Mount Olympus and bride to Zeus. He points toward the large wall-mounted photos of the Metapontum ruins but the property foundations just look like barely unearthed, geometric shapes to me. I nod at a shot of a cracked urn. members.iinet.net.au /~writing/traveller.htm   (1711 words)

VCoins - The Online Coin Show for Ancient Coins, US Coins, and World Coins The Coinage of Metapontum Parts 1 and 2 by Sydney P. Noe (Revised Edition). In the preface, Ann Johnston states, " Noe's Metapontum is essential reading for any scholar working on the coinage of S. Italy." There is a historical background and survey of the coinage, a catalogue of the coins from 1a - 547 plus all the notes. This reprint by Ann Johnston includes details about the Coinage in Double Relief to the middle of the fourth century, a section of Noe's original work that was never completed before he died. www.vcoins.com /ancient/ane/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=46&large=0   (266 words)

The Unofficial Aristeas Biography However, his true claim to fame was the legend that he was an immortal, dying in his youth and returning in Metapontum hundreds of years after his death. According to the legend, Aristeas returned as the raven-messenger of Apollon, ordered the people of Metapontum to build a statue of him, and then disappeared. The truth behind the legend is that Aristeas had died in his sleep and therefore been offered to become the dream-raven of Dream of the Endless. www.dcuguide.com /who.php?name=aristeas   (246 words)

The Kubrick Site: Duncan Cooper on "Spartacus" Composer Alex North devoted the first six seconds of his piece entitled "Metapontum Triumph" to the four crescendos which comprise the music for the Battle Map and which can still be heard today as the opening bars of the film's Overture. The studio cuts might have met with more determined resistance from the filmmakers except for the fact that, with the exception of Kirk Douglas, all of the other major players had departed for new projects and were (probably) unaware of what was taking place. However, the power source which illuminated this constellation was the Battle-Map Metapontum which encapsulated in six seconds the action to which the dialogue in these scenes referred. www.visual-memory.co.uk /amk/doc/0103.html   (4977 words)

A Taste of the Ancient World: Coins Results could vary: compare thse two crab coins, one of which was struck off-center and flawed. The barley ear was the traditional symbol of the Greek colony of Metapontum - a good example of the importance of grain in the ancient diet. Persephone, who here wears a barley wreath, was the daughter of Demeter, the major agricultural goddess worshipped by the Greeks. www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Exhibits/Food/text/coin.html   (255 words)

The Pythagoreans - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts Discusses an appealing theory, due to Kurt von Fritz, that the discovery of irrationals grew out of a study of the pentagram. Von Fritz is in support of the traditional theory that discovery or irrationals was due to Hippasus of Metapontum. Reprinted in Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity. math.truman.edu /~thammond/history/Pythagoreans.html   (2106 words)

Hippasus Of Metapontum - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Read LoveToKnow 1911:Explanation to get more explanation and see how you can help! HIPPASUS OF METAPONTUM, Pythagorean philosopher, was one of the earliest of the disciples of Pythagoras. He is mentioned both by Diogenes Laertius and by Iamblichus, but nothing is known of his life. www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hippasus_Of_Metapontum   (165 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.01.24 This volume contains eleven essays that investigate the identities of various poleis and Greek and non-Greek ethne in the Greek Mediterranean in the first millenium BCE: Reggium and Locri, Siris and Metapontum, Metapontum and the Lucanians, Dyme, the Elymians, the Illyrians, the Sicels, the Brettians, the Macedonians, and Alexander's colonial settlements. This is an accurate, if general, characterization of the commonality of the various topics and approaches taken by the contributors. Complicating this picture, there is both considerable disagreement as to the significance of Metapontum's attitudes towards Taras in this context and some good evidence for peaceful interaction with the Lucanians (such as the integration of Lucanian mercenaries into the Greek communities in the fourth century). ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-01-24.html   (2468 words)

Table of contents for Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Agricultural colonies -- Italy -- Metapontum (Extinct city). Metapontum (Extinct city) -- Rural life and customs. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Metapontum (Extinct city). www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002496.html   (151 words)

Suggestions - Metapontum Village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Carlo R. send an e-mail to this user) Il villaggio e molto ben integrato con la natura;la direzione oltre ad essere di una perfetta efficienza e davvero molto affabile e cordiale. Alfonso C. send an e-mail to this user) www.icaro.it /camping/v_cons_p_LiN_u_e_e_c0_u_2231   (199 words)

Metapontum - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK Metapontum - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK or LOGIN Our search facility includes over 50,000 fully cross-referenced historical entries. THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks. www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=METAPONTUM&enc=31435   (177 words)

Hippasus of Metapontum - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Hippasus of Metapontum - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity. math.truman.edu /~thammond/history_edit/Hippasus.html   (217 words)

Amazon.com: The Coinage of Metapontum (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No 164): Books: Ann Johnston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Amazon.com: The Coinage of Metapontum (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No 164): Books: Ann Johnston Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. The Coinage of Metapontum (Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No 164) (Hardcover) www.amazon.com /Coinage-Metapontum-Numismatic-Notes-Monographs/dp/0897222369   (673 words)

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