![]() Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini also applauded the finding, saying how "important it is to continue investing with conviction in archaeological research which never ceases to return important pieces of Mediterranean history." Image Credit: ANSA.Ī discovery, the scholar emphasised, "which sheds a new light on this fascinating page of ancient history." In the foreground is the bronze cap helmet of Etruscan origin (photo Paestum-Velia archaeological park). READ MORE: Magna Graecia: Casapulla, the town of Apollo.Īs they were skilled merchants, they founded Hyele, then renamed Elea (Velia according to the Romans), the city of Magna Graecia which was the birthplace of the philosopher Parmenides.ĭirector General of all the Italian museums, Massimo Osanna, anticipated exclusively to Italian outlet ANSA that an excavation started by the Archaeological Park of Paestum-Velia has unearthed helmets that most likely come from that epochal battle. In the clash, claims Herodotus, the Greeks won.Īnd yet the ships they had managed to save could no longer fight, so much so that they had to embark their families, abandon Alalia and head for Magna Graecia (Southern Italy). This was an epic and bloody fight and Herodotus tells us about the Greek colonists, who settled in the Corsican city of Alalia, and were under attack from a joint Etruscan and Carthaginian military force. All rights reserved.It was 540 BC when the first great naval battle in history took place off the coast of Corsica, in what the ancients called the Sea of Sardinia, to the west of Magna Graecia. Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Randall-MacIver, Greek Cities of Italy and Sicily (1931) T. BC those colonized locally are perhaps a century younger)-on the east coast from north to south, Tarentum (colonized from Sparta), Metapontum (from Achaea), Heraclea (from Tarentum), Siris (from Colophon), Sybaris (from Achaea), Thurii (from Athens, replacing Sybaris), Crotona (from Achaea), Caulonia (from Crotona), Epizephyrian Locris (from Locris) on the west coast from north to south, Cumae (from Chalcis), Neapolis (now Naples from Cumae), Paestum, or Posidonia (from Sybaris), Elea (from Phocaea in Ionia), Laos (from Sybaris), Hipponium (from Epizephyrian Locris), and Rhegium (now Reggio de Calabria from Chalcis). The following are the chief cities of Magna Graecia (those colonized from Greece, except Thurii and Elea, go back to the 8th or early 7th cent. Through Cumae especially, the Etruscans of Capua and the Romans came into early contact with Greek civilization. BC, that of Parmenides at Elea and that of Pythagoras at Crotona. Magna Graecia was the center of two philosophical groups in the 6th cent. Only Tarentum (now Taranto) and Cumae remained individually very significant. Unlike Greek Sicily, Magna Graecia began to decline by 500 BC, probably because of malaria and endless warfare among the colonies. They were on both coasts from the Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Taranto southward. BC founded a number of towns that became the centers of a new, thriving Greek territory. The Greek overseas expansion of the 8th cent. Magna Graecia măg´nə grē´shə, Greek colonies of S Italy. ![]()
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