Metabus

A son of Sisyphus, from whom the town of Metapontum, in Southern Italy, was believed to have derived its name.

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References

Sources

  • Servius on Virgil's Aeneid xii, 540.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Μεταπόντιον.
  • Strabo. Geography vi, p. 265.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.