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Traveler Renault Roaming
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- Apr 6, 2019, 10:38am
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Italy Basilicate Bernalda Metaponto 40.370628, 16.81120640°22’14” N 16°48’40” E
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Day 161
Metaponto
April 6, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Metaponto was a rich and flourishing outpost of Magna Grecia, strategically between the mouths of the Bradano and the Basento rivers. It was founded in the 7th century BCE and it is the town in which Pythagoras was born.
It also doesn't exist anymore except as a groundplan.
So instead I visited the museum which had many interesting relics of life in that era.
I liked the drawings of girls' hairstyles many of which can still be seen today. Checkout the dreadlocks!
Hard to photograph exhibits behind glass but the 5th C jewelry was exquisite.
I appreciated the way a mannequin was dressed in a recreation of 7th C style, wearing amulets of spiral bronze copied from those on display from ancient tombs.
And the jesters on the vase!Read more
Tony Hammond A case of hair today, gone tomorrow?
4/12/19Reply
Mona's Meanderings Stunning
4/20/19Reply
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Traveler Renault Roaming
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- Apr 6, 2019, 2:38pm
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 14 m
- Italy Basilicate Bernalda Metaponto 40.399042, 16.80160740°23’57” N 16°48’6” E
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Tavole Palatine
April 6, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
“Then is Metaponto, which is at a distance of 140 stadia from the port of Heraclea (25,9 km). It is said that this city was founded by Greeks, native from Pylos, who, under Nestor, returned from Troy with their ships. It is believed that they were the first to cultivate this land, and for this reason they dedicated in the temple of Apollo in Delphi their entire crop of wheat, shining like gold" [Strabo 58-25 BCE]
The Achaean origin of the city is demonstrated through a local rite, called 'atoning sacrifice,' offered by the inhabitants of Metaponto in honour of old Neleides. The city was razed to the ground by the Samnites. Antiochus claimed that the site was abandoned and it was later colonized by some Achaeans, sent there by their compatriots of Sybaris."[Antiochus 423 BCE]

The remains of the 6th-century Temple of Hera a couple of km from Metaponto; 15 Doric columns and a few bits of pavement.
They're known as the Palatine Tables since knights, or paladins, are said to have gathered here before heading to the Crusades. Who said it I could not ask since I had the place to myself.Read more
Tony Hammond It's all Greek to me but the flowers are pretty....
4/12/19Reply
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