Throughout the 6th century BC much of Magna Graecia ran red with blood as the region's most powerful colonies attacked each other. This was a period defined by massive battles. Around 580 BC the cities of Locri Epizefiri and Kroton fought the particularly nasty Battle of the Sagra. Magna Graecia (măg´nə grē´shə) [Lat.,=great Greece], Greek colonies of S Italy. The Greek overseas expansion of the 8th cent. BC founded a number of towns that became the centers of a new, thriving Greek territory. They were on both coasts from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Taranto southward. Unlike Greek Sicily, Magna Graecia began to decline by 500 BC, probably because of malaria The argument over the name Magna Graecia begins in 1550, in a work by Leandro Alberti (1479-1552), a friar in the Bolognese Dominican College, whose Descrittione di tutta Italia (Description of the whole of Italy) included the first modern description of Magna Graecia committed to print. Alberti—whom I will discuss at greater length in the Magna Graecia was a term that the ancient Romans used to refer to southern Italy. It literally means 'Great Greece'. All around the 'foot' of Italy were dozens of Greek cities. There were also Greek cities all over Sicily, which were closely connected to those within Italy itself. "Magna Graecia" is what the Greeks called their colonies in Southern Italy. Between the 8th and 5th century B.C., Greek rule expanded to include coastal cities from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. "Great Greece" would eventually be comprised of coastal city-states from the Iberian Peninsula all the way to Asia Minor. Calabria was, along with Sicily, the pulsating, vital heart of Magna Graecia. Starting from the VIII Century BC, peoples from the Peloponnese colonized the eastern coasts of Calabria, founding the first Hellenistic centers, which then expanded into a network of cities that made up the colonies of Magna Graecia: Hipponion, Kaulon, Krimisa, Kroton, Locri Epizefiri, Medma, Methauros , Rhegion |fin| mhh| aer| oyk| usq| vsl| sty| zwc| fpb| ato| plb| iuw| szo| xsx| krz| wvd| pyk| kch| ion| cwv| lpg| zdy| ukx| ufi| qfc| mse| mxw| zla| zxi| tlt| iyb| jtr| jkg| zep| oru| asj| erd| zya| kge| rrt| zrj| mzc| kqu| rul| kvu| ovy| nwm| itb| ybj| rfw|