Taras

A son of Poseidon and a nymph. He is said to have traversed the sea from the promontory of Taenarum to the south of Italy, riding on a dolphin, and to have founded Tarentum in Italy.1 There he was worshiped as a hero.2

According to Virgil, however, the city was founded by Heracles.3

References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece x, 10.4, 13.5.
  2. Strabo. Geography vi, 279.
  3. Virgil. Aeneid iii, 551.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.