Magna Graecia
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Magna Graecia was the historical Greek-speaking area of southern Italy. It encompassed the modern Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Sicily. These regions were extensively
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Segesta Ancient Greek Temple 0932
Eos chariot 430 420 BC Staatliche Antikensammlungen
Youth donkey Louvre Cp 5103
Greek colonisation
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The Greek colonisation was the expansion of Archaic Greeks across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BCE.
Magna Graecia
…Greek-speaking area of southern Italy. It encompassed the modern Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Sicily. These regions were extensively settled by Greeks beginning in the 8th century BC. Initially founded by their metropoleis (mother cities), the settlements evolved into independent and powerful…
Ruins of Abdera, a classical city of Thrace, in present-day Greece
Illustration of an Archaic Greek ship on pottery, c. 520 BC
The Argonautica, the myth thought to pertain to the bold nautical expeditions of this period
Greek colonies and their metropolitan cities depicted with red labels, while Phoenician colonies are depicted with yellow labels (4th century BC)