Tarentum
place · 7 works · 10 mentions · 12 anchored passages
the Tarentines · the Tarentines' territory
in the texts
The Histories
Greek city in southern Italy from which Arion departed on his fatal voyage
Trusting none more than the Corinthians, he hired a Corinthian vessel to carry him from Tarentum.
While they were saying that he was safe in Italy and that they had left him flourishing at Tarentum, Arion appeared before them, just as he was when he jumped from the ship;
Gillus chose to be restored to Tarentum and told the story of his misfortune;
History of the Peloponnesian War
An Italian city near the Iapygian foreland, proposed by Hermocrates as a strategic point to confront the Athenians and later touched by the Athenian fleet.
or if we should not choose to do so, we may also retire to Tarentum:
but if not, as many as possible in concert with us—would launch the whole of our present navy, with two months' provisions, and go to meet the Athenians at Tarentum and the Iapygian foreland, and show them that they will not have to fight about Sicily before they have fought for their own passage over the Ionian Sea;
When the whole armament had made the coast at the Iapygian foreland, and Tarentum, and as they severally could, they sailed along the coast of Italy, as the cities did not afford them a market, or the protection of their walls, but only water and anchorage, (and Tarentum and Locri not even these,) until they came to Rhegium, a promontory of Italy.
On Moral Ends
City where Plato visited the philosopher Archytas
Why, after that, did he go to Archytas at Tarentum?
Orations
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?
Institutes of Roman Law
City whose capture led to mass enslavement of its inhabitants.
30,000 Tarentines were sent as slaves to Rome by Fabius Cunctator, the captor of Tarentum;
Letters to Lucilius
Italian city cited as a retreat where a man buried himself away, criticized as ostentatious.
This man has buried himself at Tarentum, that one has shut himself up at Naples, this one for many years has not crossed the threshold of his own house.
On Tranquillity of Mind
A city in southern Italy with a famous harbor and mild climate, named as a destination of the restless traveler.
'Let us make for Tarentum and its famous harbor, the milder winters of its sky, a region rich enough even for its ancient throng.