Metapontum

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

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

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.

To Achaea belonged the south Italian towns of Croton, Metapontum and Sybaris.

Transcribers notes On page 30 Megapontum has been left as printed, though the author probably meant Metapontum.