Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities ...

, Phalanthos (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

: Φάλανθος) is a divine hero, the leader of the Spartan Partheniae and the founder of

Taranto Taranto (, also ; ; nap, label= Tarantino, Tarde; Latin: Tarentum; Old Italian: ''Tarento''; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto, serving as an important com ...

. He is said to have been condemned to death by the ephors.He was married to Aethra, who,while picking his lice, wept on his husband's head,because her husband's efforts coming to nothing after her husband fears an oracle tells the impossibility of his project to take control of the city.From this her husband realized the oracle(which was to hit the city when it rains, but as his wifes nane was Aethra which means bright sky,her tears would be equivalent of raining bright skies),which was fulfilled,helped him conquer Tarantum. It is said that before Phalanthus reached Italy, he suffered a shipwreck in the Crisaean sea, and was brought ashore by a dolphin.

Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC * Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...

, 10.13.10 Taranto, didracma, 500-473 ac

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Antiochus of Syracuse Antiochus of Syracuse ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a Greek historian, who flourished around 420 BC. Little is known of Antiochus' life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because ...

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FGrH ''Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker'', commonly abbreviated ''FGrHist'' or ''FGrH'' (''Fragments of the Greek Historians''), is a collection by Felix Jacoby of the works of those ancient Greek historians whose works have been lost, but of w ...

'' 555F13) ; ** Ephorus of Cumae (''

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* Jean Bérard, ''La colonisation grecque de l'Italie méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'Antiquité. L'histoire et la légende'', Paris, 1957, pp.162-175. * Marinella Corsano, « Sparte et Tarente : le mythe de fondation d'une colonie », in ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'' 196, 2, 1979, pp.113-140. * G. Maddoli, "Falanto spartiata", in ''Mélange de l'École française de Rome'' 95, 1983, pp.555-564. * Domenico Musti, ''Strabone e la Magna Grecia'', Padoue, 1988, pp.151-172. * Irad Malkin, ''Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean'', Cambridge, 1994 * Claudia Antonetti, "Phalanthos “entre Corinthe et Sycione”", in ''Dialogues d'histoire ancienne'' 22/1, 1996, pp.65-78 * Giovanna Bonivento Pupino, Noi Tarantini Figli di Parteni, in Ribalta di Puglia nn.8-9 marzo 2003 https://www.academia.edu/11088541/Noi_Tarantini_figli_di_Parteni * Jonathan M. Hall, ''A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE'', Blackwell, 2007, , p111-114 Laconian mythology Ancient Tarantines Greek mythological heroes {{Greek-myth-stub Characters in Greek mythology

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