Magna Graecia
concept
3 mentions
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4 Jun
↓1 vs the 6 months before
Collective term for Greek colonies in southern Italy
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Peak in the week of 3 Jun — 1 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDr Simon ElliottDan Snow's History Hit · The Rise of the Roman Empire · 7:36 · 4 Jun
…Then below that, you've got Magna Graecia, sort of where you have the Greek settlements through the Bay of Salerno, through towards Sicily.…
Tristan HughesThe Ancients · Herodotus: The Father of History · 9:24 · 15 Mar
…And so by the end, you say he goes to Italy, the story of the Western Greeks, Magna Graecia, so Greater Greece.…
Dr. Tiziana D'AngeloThe Ancients · Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy · 6:51 · 18 Dec
…Magna Graecia, or Megale Hellas as it was known in Greek, literally means Greater Greece or Great Greece, and it's conventionally used to refer by scholars to the Greek settlements in Italy.…
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