![]() ![]() Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Randall-MacIver, Greek Cities of Italy and Sicily (1931) T. Syracuse was probably the most powerful Greek colony in Magna Graecia (. ![]() BC 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). Syracuse was founded on the island of Sicily during the early years of the Archaic Era. Referred to as Magna Graecia, settlers began to arrive from Greece around the 8th. 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. There were several Ancient Greek colonies located in what is now Italy. Through Cumae especially, the Etruscans of Capua and the Romans came into early contact with Greek civilization. BC, 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 BC, probably because of malaria and endless warfare among the colonies. Crossing the Ionian Sea, we make our first call in ancient Magna Graecia in. The areas of settlement in Southern Italy became so thoroughly Hellenised that Roman writers such as Ovid and Polybius referred to the region as Magna Graecia ('Great Greece'). colonies, including Syracuse in Sicily fabled Delphi, the sanctuary of. They were on both coasts from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Taranto southward. The city of Gela which was a colony of Rhodes and Crete founded its own colony, Acragas. BC 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 măg´nə grē´shə, Greek colonies of S Italy. ![]()
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