Group
Magna Graecia
Magna Græcia is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that are extensively colonized by Greek settlers; particularly the Achaean colonies of Tarentum, Crotone, and Sybaris, but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neapolis to the north.
The colonists, who begin arriving in the eighth century BCE, bring with them their Hellenic civilization, which is to leave a lasting imprint in Italy, particularly on the culture of ancient Rome.
The Romans called the area of Sicily and the heel of the boot of Italy Magna Graecia (Latin, “Great Greece”), since it was so densely inhabited by the Greeks.
The ancient geographers differed on whether the term included Sicily or merely Apulia and Calabria — Strabo being the most prominent advocate of the wider definitions.
Member Cities
- Aegospotami Canakkale Turkey Location
- Akragas > Agrigento Sicilia Italy Location
- Alèria Corse France Location
- Ancona Marche Italy Location
- Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece Location
- Augusta Sicilia Italy Location
- Capua Campania Italy Location
- Carbonia Sardegna Italy Location
- Caronia > Cale Acte Sicilia Italy Location
- Carthage Tunis Tunisia Location
- Catania > Catana Sicilia Italy Location
- Caulonia Calabria Italy Location
- Ceglie Messapico Puglia Italy Location
- Chalcis > Khalkís Evvoia Greece Location
- Chiusi > Clusium Toscana Italy Location
- Corigliano Calabro > Sybaris > Thurii Calabria Italy Location
- Crotone Calabria Italy Location
- Cumae Italy Location
- Càgliari > Carales Sardegna Italy Location
- Dascylium > Ergili Turkey Location
- Decelea Greece Location
- Fagnano Castello Calabria Italy Location
- Fiesole Toscana Italy Location
- Gela Sicilia Italy Location
- Halicarnassus Turkey Location
- Herculaneum Campania Italy Location
- Himera Sicilia Italy Location
- Ialysos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Ibiza Balearic Islands Spain Location
- Ischia Campania Italy Location
- Kameiros > Soroni Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Kérkira (Corfu) Island Kerkira Greece Location
- Lentini > Leontini Sicilia Italy Location
- Leptis Magna Al-Khums Libya Location
- Lilybaeum > Marsala Sicilia Italy Location
- Lindos Dhodhekanisos Greece Location
- Locri Calabria Italy Location
- Manduria Puglia Italy Location
- Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France Location
- Messina Sicilia Italy Location
- Metapontum Italy Location
- Miletus Turkey Location
- Mineo > Palike Sicilia Italy Location
- Modica > Motya Sicilia Italy Location
- Naxos Sicilia Italy Location
- Nola Campania Italy Location
- Nora Sardegna Italy Location
- Olympia Greece Location
- Orvieto > Volsinii Umbria Italy Location
- Paestum > Poseidonia Italy Location
- Palermo > Panormus Sicilia Italy Location
- Pella Greece Location
- Phocaea > Panaz Tepe Turkey Location
- Piraeus > Piraiévs Attiki Greece Location
- Pola > Pula Istria Croatia Location
- Ras > Stari Ras Serbia Serbia Location
- Reggio di Calabria > Rhegium Calabria Italy Location
- Rhegium > Reggio di Calabria Calabria Italy Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Sant'Antìoco > Sulci Sardegna Italy Location
- Segesta Sicilia Italy Location
- Selinunte > Selinus Sicilia Italy Location
- Skopje Macedonia Location
- Solus > Soluntum Sicilia Italy Location
- Sparta > Spárti Lakonia Greece Location
- Spina Italy Location
- Sybaris > Thurii > Corigliano Calabro Calabria Italy Location
- Syme Greece Location
- Syracuse > Siracusa Sicilia Italy Location
- Sámos Island Samos Greece Location
- Taormina Sicilia Italy Location
- Taranto > Tarentum Puglia Italy Location
- Tharros Sardegna Italy Location
- Thásos Island Kavala Greece Location
- Vathí Samos Greece Location
- Veii Italy Location
- Velia > Elea Campania Italy Location
- Volterra Toscana Italy Location
- Ándros Kikladhes Greece Location