Magna Graecia

Starting Greek colonies and regions of ancient Italy and Sicily      NW Greek      Achaean      Doric      Ionian

Magna Graecia is a name for coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Gulf of Taranto. This part of Italy had many Greek settlers. Magna Graecia is Latin and means "Great Greece".

The settlers began arriving in the 8th century BC. After the Pyrrhic War in the 3rd century BC the area was added into the Roman Republic.

Magna Graecia Media

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  Remains of the ancient Greek city of Neàpolis (now Naples) in Piazza Bellini, Naples

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  Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy

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  Ancient Greek colonies

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  Remains of the ancient Greek city of Rhegium (now Reggio Calabria) along the seafront of Reggio Calabria

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  Riace Bronzes exhibited in the National Museum of Magna Graecia in Reggio Calabria

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  Right statue from the Dioscuri group from Locri exhibited in the National Museum of Magna Graecia in Reggio Calabria

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  Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC

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  Italian cities and tribes who allied with Hannibal, c. 213 BC (blue)

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  Doric columns from the Temple of Poseidon in Taras (now Taranto); legacy of its Greek origins

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  Pinax of Eros, Hermes and Aphrodite exhibited in the National Museum of Magna Graecia in Reggio Calabria