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Feb 13, 2024 · It began toward the end of the 4th century BC when several southern Greek cities were attacked by Bruttians and Lucanians, old Italic tribes who wanted the Greek-held lands of southern Italy back. These Greek cities asked Rome for help and the Romans responded in the 280s by sending their military garrisons there to exploit the weakness.
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Italy. ancient Greece. Magna Graecia, group of ancient Greek cities along the coast of southern Italy; the people of this region were known to the Greeks as Italiotai and to the Romans as Graeci. The site of extensive trade and commerce, Magna Graecia was the seat of the Pythagorean and Eleatic systems of philosophy.
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5th century BC. The 5th century BC was very turbulent for the city as confirmed by the archaeological record. It was one of the cities besieged and taken by Hippocrates, despot of Gela, in 492/1 BC. It passed under the authority of Gelon of Syracuse then his brother Hieron in 476 BC.
- 734 BC
- Chalcidean colonists
Aug 14, 2023 · Naxus was the first of many Greek colonies in Sicily. Within ten years of its foundation, six more Hellenic settlements had been established on the island; within a hundred years that number was nearer twenty. By the turn of the 5th century BC, Greek cities dotted Sicily’s eastern and southern coastlines.
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First Greek settlements & dates Greek temple at Selinunte. (Temple dedicated to Hera, built in the 5th century BC.) Rule under the Deinomenids (485-465 BC) Sicily began to be colonised by Greeks in the 8th century BC. Initially, this was restricted to the eastern and southern parts of the island.
Italian: Siracusa. Syracuse, Italy. Ruins of the Greek theatre of Hieron II and, above it, a nymphaeum (fountain), Syracuse, Italy. (more) Syracuse, city, on the east coast of Sicily, 33 miles (53 km) south of Catania. It was the chief Greek city of ancient Sicily. Syracuse was settled about 734 bce by Corinthians led by the aristocrat Archias ...
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Aug 28, 2020 · Article. The history of the ancient world has always been told as a history of cities, from Homer 's epic poems about events just before and just after the sack of Troy, through the prose histories of wars between Athens and Sparta, Rome and Carthage. From the 5th century BCE, most historians, dramatists, philosophers, orators, and scholars ...
