Phalanthus of Tarentum

In Greek mythology, Phalanthos (Φάλανθος) is a divine hero, the leader of the Spartan Partheniae and the founder of Taranto. He is said to have been condemned to death by the ephors.

Sources

    • Pausanias, Travels (X, 10, 6-8 ; X, 13, 10).
    • Strabo, Geography (VI, 3, 2-3) =

    Bibliography

    • (in French) 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.
    • (in French) 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.
    • (in Italian) G. Maddoli, "Falanto spartiata", in Mélange de l'École française de Rome 95, 1983, pp.555-564.
    • (in Italian) Domenico Musti, Strabone e la Magna Grecia, Padoue, 1988, pp.151-172.
    • Irad Malkin, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean, Cambridge, 1994
    • (in French) Claudia Antonetti, "Phalanthos “entre Corinthe et Sycione”", in Dialogues d'histoire ancienne 22/1, 1996, pp.65-78
    • Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE, Blackwell, 2007, ISBN 0-631-22668-0, p111-114
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