The term Magna Graecia was first mentioned by Polybius, a Greek historian who lived in the 2 nd century BC. Polybius was the first to use the term Magna Grecia This rich and well-farmed land, great producer of wine – so much so that it was called ‘Enotria’ – rich in crops and inhabited by farmers and merchants, must have really looked special to them.Īlso, the homogeneity of the settlements, the fast development of a new culture that combined Greek knowledge and traditions with those of the pre-existing Italic population, might have given the Greeks the idea of unity, far from their motherland’s political fragmentation. This region must have had the same effect on them as the great North American prairies had on 19 th century settlers. The Greeks found vast swaths of flat and fertile land with plenty of water in the south of Italy, and in particular along the so called ‘Ionian Arc’. Μεγάλη ῾Ελλάς is the term first used by Greek, then by Roman authors to refer to the region in southern Italy where Greek settlers had found their new home from the 8 th century BC. Family Tour of Calabria’s most beautiful sites.Tour for Young People: a journey through Art, Colours and Flavours.Tour for Students: Reggio, Scilla and Gerace.Family Tour: Monuments, Churches and Art.Aspromonte, Nature’s Heart in Magna Grecia.The myth of the third Bronze, between legend and reality.Scolacium Archaeological Park (Ancient Skilletion).Monasterace Marina Archaeological Park and Caulonia Museum.Francavilla Marittima Archaeological Site.Capo Colonna Archaeological Park and Museum.Randall-MacIver, Greek Cities of Italy and Sicily (1931) T. those colonized locally are perhaps a century younger)-on the east coast from north to south, Tarentum (colonized from Sparta), Metapontum (from Achaea), Heraclea (from Tarentum), Siris (from Colophon), Sybaris (from Achaea), Thurii (from Athens, replacing Sybaris), Crotona (from Achaea), Caulonia (from Crotona), Epizephyrian Locris (from Locris) on the west coast from north to south, Cumae (from Chalcis), Neapolis (now Naples from Cumae), Paestum, or Posidonia (from Sybaris), Elea (from Phocaea in Ionia), Laos (from Sybaris), Hipponium (from Epizephyrian Locris), and Rhegium (now Reggio de Calabria from Chalcis). The following are the chief cities of Magna Graecia (those colonized from Greece, except Thurii and Elea, go back to the 8th or early 7th cent. Through Cumae especially, the Etruscans of Capua and the Romans came into early contact with Greek civilization. B.C., that of Parmenides at Elea and that of Pythagoras at Crotona. Magna Graecia was the center of two philosophical groups in the 6th cent. Only Tarentum (now Taranto) and Cumae remained individually very significant. Unlike Greek Sicily, Magna Graecia began to decline by 500 B.C., probably because of malaria and endless warfare among the colonies. They were on both coasts from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Taranto southward. founded a number of towns that became the centers of a new, thriving Greek territory. The Greek overseas expansion of the 8th cent. Magna Graecia (măgˈnə grēˈshə), Greek colonies of S Italy.
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