Taras

Role: founder of Tarentum · First appears: Fable 109

Fable 109

• parent: Neptune “Tarentum was a famous city of Calabria, said to have been founded by Taras, the son of Neptune.”
• with Phalanthus (Phalanthus later enlarges the city founded by Taras.) “Tarentum was a famous city of Calabria, said to have been founded by Taras, the son of Neptune. It was afterwards enlarged by Phalanthus, a Lacedæmonian, whence its present epithet.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.