Phalanthus of Tarentum
See also: Phalanthus
In Greek mythology, Phalanthos (Φάλανθος) is a divine hero, the leader of the Spartan Partheniae and the mythical 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) =
- Antiochus of Syracuse (FGrH 555F13) ;
- Ephorus of Cumae (FGrH 70F216).
Bibliography
- (French) Jean Bérard, La colonisation grecque de l'Italie méridionale et de la Sicile dans l'Antiquité. L'histoire et la légende, Paris, 1957, p162-175.
- (French) Marinella Corsano, « Sparte et Tarente : le mythe de fondation d'une colonie », dans Revue de l'histoire des religions 196, 2, 1979, p113-140.
- (Italian) G. Maddoli, « Falanto spartiata », dans Mélange de l'École française de Rome 95, 1983, p555-564.
- (Italian) Domenico Musti, Strabone e la Magna Grecia, Padoue, 1988, p151-172.
- Irad Malkin, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean, Cambridge, 1994
- (French) Claudia Antonetti, « Phalanthos “entre Corinthe et Sycione” », dans Dialogues d'histoire ancienne 22/1, 1996, p65-78
- 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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