![]() Unlike Greek Sicily, Magna Graecia on the Italian peninsula began to decline by 500 B.C.E., probably because of malaria and endless warfare among the colonies, but certainly with the onslaught and emergence of the Roman Empire. This process dispersed Greek culture and arts throughout the central and western Mediterranean. ![]() ![]() In the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries B.C.E., Sicily and the southern part of the Italian peninsula (today the poorest areas in ITALY) were colonized by Greeks, and it is claimed that the area boasted more Greeks and Greek temples than homeland Greece itself. Because these colonies remained closely linked to their home cities in Greece proper, they together were known as Magna Graecia.ĭespite the existence of earlier trading colonies established by the Phoenicians, Greek mythology and folklore eventually asserted the greatest influence on Sicily. These new colonies were concentrated south from the Bay of Naples to the Gulf of Taranto and along the southern and eastern coasts of Sicily in the MEDITERRANEAN SEA. Competing city-states such as Sparta, Corinth, and Athens began to found new cities (colonies) that, in turn, became centers of an economically thriving and internally competitive expansion of Greek culture. It was a process that began in the 7th century B.C.E., largely because of overpopulation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.MAGNA GRAECIA (or “Greater GREECE”) was the geographic expression of Greek colonization originating from many different Greek cities. The western Greeks: classical civilization in the western Mediterranean. The Greek world: art and civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. Sicily before history: an archaeological survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age. Sicilia e la Magna Grecia: Archeologia della Colonizzazione Greca d’Occidente (Manuali Laterza 314). Archeologia della Magna Grecia (Manuali Laterza 29), 6th edn. Forme di identità, modi di contatto e processi di trasformazione. Warminster: Aris and Phillips.Īlbanese-Procelli, R.M. Sicily under the Roman empire: a Roman province, 36 BC – AD 365. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97: 35-50. Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome 251: 141-183. Actes de la recontre scientifique, Rome-Naples, 15-18 Novembre 1995. Questions de métrologie, in La colonisation grecque en Méditerranée occidentale. ![]() American Journal of Archaeology 107: 145-180. The sanctuary of the divine Palikoi (Rochicella di Mineo, Sicily): fieldwork from 1995 to 2001. Scott (ed.) The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the renaissance (Technology and Change in History 11): 43-59. Archimedes, the north baths at Morgantina and early developments in vaulted construction, in C. Tonfiguren im Grab: Fundkontexte hellenistischer Terrakotten aus der Nekropole von Tarent. The western Greeks: the history of Sicily and South Italy from the foundation of the Greek colonies to 480 B.C. Taranto: Convegno di Studi Sulla Magna Grecia.ĭunbabin, T.J. Atti del 36 o Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia: 475 -501. Consumption, cultural frontiers, and identity: Anthropological approaches to Greek colonial encounters, in Confini e Frontiera nella Grecità d’Occidente. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press.ĭietler, M. ![]() Cults, territory, and the origins of the Greek city-state. Greeks, Romans and Barbarians: spheres of interaction. Parra (ed.) Magna Graecia: Archeologia di un Sapere: 33-40. Megale Hellas, Magna Graecia, Italía: Dinamiche di Nomi, in S. Washington (DC): Center for Hellenic Studies.Ĭordano, F. Malkin (ed.) Ancient perceptions of Greek ethnicity: 113-157. Kupara, a Sikel nymph? Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126: 177-185. ![]()
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