Metapontum

[ met-uh-pon-tuhm ]

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in SE Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto: home of Pythagoras in exile.

Example Sentences

Hippasus of Metapontum stood on the deck, preparing to die.

From Literature

This someone was Hippasus of Metapontum, a mathematician and member of the Pythagorean brotherhood.

From Literature

There wasn’t a soul here besides us, no tourists with cameras, no yammering tour guides, just a few lizards skittering about, so it was easy to imagine what it would have been like here in the eighth century B.C. when the city of Metapontum rose up on the edge of the Ionian Sea, part of the Magna Graecia colony.

From New York Times

Sometime in the 5th century B.C. the Greek philosopher Hippasus of Metapontum, a member of the secretive Pythagorean brotherhood, left his home in southern Italy and boarded a seagoing ship.

From Salon

Sometime in the 5th century B.C. the Greek philosopher Hippasus of Metapontum, a member of the secretive Pythagorean brotherhood, left his home in southern Italy and boarded a seagoing ship.

From Scientific American