Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Places

    Metapontum

    place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    in the texts

    On Moral EndsHellenistic · Latin

    A city in southern Italy where Pythagoras is said to have ended his life, visited by the narrator.

    For you know that I once came with you to Metapontum, and did not turn aside to my host before I had seen that very spot where Pythagoras had ended his life, and his seat.
    book 5

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Italian city where the Pythagorean philosophy is said to have grown old.

    The Pythagorean philosophy, the Italic, grew old at Metapontum in Italy.
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Italian Greek city, once powerful, now desolate.

    And Croton and Thurii and Metapontum and Tarentum, having flourished to so great a height and once had so great power, of what city are they not now more desolate?
    oration 33

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Greek city in southern Italy visited by the Athenian expedition, which contributes dart-men and triremes.

    and after renewing an old friendship with Artas, who also had provided them with the dart-men, being one of their chieftains, they arrived at Metapontum in Italy.
    chapter 7