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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
City of southern Italy (today's Taranto) (area 11).
Tarentum was a colony of Sparta founded toward the
end of the VIIIth century B. C.
Tarentum was the birthplace of Archytas,
a Pythagorean who became a friend of Plato, and seems to have been a very successful
general and statesman in his hometown of Tarentum.
Plato most likely first met him during his first trip
to Southern Italy and Sicily in 388. Plato speaks
of him in the VIIth Letter.
