Greek colonists founded a number of city states on both coasts of the peninsular from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Taranto southwards and all round the narrow coastal plain of Sicily. This is what I found out: The Greek expansion into South Italy and Sicily began in the eighth century BC. Looking back at the history of Magna Greciaįirst I did some research. I’d done all that: Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum. The Romans usually represent the ancient past in Italy. I don’t know about you, but I find all this amazing so I set out to find where these ancient peoples lived. These people are the last remnants of Magna Graecia, an area of Southern Italy and Sicily that was colonised by the ancient Greeks. When a Greek president visited some of these settlements, he was welcomed by people that speak a dialect, Griko that is based on ancient Greek. In Bovesia – Calabria – five thousand residents have preserved their language and culture for over two thousand years. In Apulia some 15,000 people still speak the ancient Greek dialect. Why? Because, during earlier trips to Apulia, and Calabria I discovered villages, where a form of Greek was still spoken. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.During my last visit to Italy I was on a mission: to track down the ancient Greeks. 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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