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Pythagoras was teaching at his school in Crotone where the ruins are visible today. After his school was destroyed in a dispute between Pythagoras and one of his very infuential Etruscan pupils, Pytagoras moved under the protection of the tyrant of Taranto to Metapontum, where all the monuments are visible today after nearly 2500 years. Croton or Crotona (present-day Crotone), in the toe of the Italian peninsula, was an Achaean colony from c. ...
Metapontum was founded by Achaean Greek settlers from the northern Peloponnese in the late 7th century BC.
A brief revitalization in the 4th century was followed by involvement in the 3rd century in two devastating wars against the advancing Romans, which dramatically reduced the population in both city and countryside.
From Late Antiquity (4th-6th centuries AD) to the 19th century the "Metapontino" (as the former colonial chora came to be known) was occupied by a few isolated farmsteads and hamlets; the majority of the population withdrew into hilltop towns like Bernalda and Pisticci to escape the swampy conditions along the coast.
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