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. The chapter proceeds by examining the transformation of humanist historical geography during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before moving on to an exploration of the interaction between the Neapolitan Enlightenment and.Magna Graecia măg´nə grē´shə, Greek colonies of S Italy. Ceserani focuses on three sixteenth-century works by Alberti, Galateo and Barrio, and their diverse ways of presenting the history and monuments of Magna Graecia within the tradition of humanist historical geography initiated by Biondo's Italia illustrata. 17-75) explores the study of Magna Graecia from the Renaissance to the middle of the eighteenth century, based around the theme of discoveries and rediscoveries. The second axis concerns the role of Magna Graecia within the development of discourses about South Italian and Italian identity and history: what role were the ancient Greek settlements accorded in how Southern Italians perceived their local, regional and national identities from the Renaissance to the present? As Ceserani shows in the introduction and throughout the book, the very concept of Magna Graecia and what is included in it is a good indication of the complexity and mutability of the topic: is Sicily part of Magna Graecia or does it only cover South Italy? What role should be envisaged for the non-Greek 'native' Italici? In what relationship does Magna Graecia stand to Greece 'proper'? The third axis is formed by the constant interaction between Italian and foreign approaches, scholars, institutions and states the book explores the turns and twists of the perennial convergences and divergences between Italian and ultramontane approaches and perspectives.Ĭhapter 1 (pp. The book explores the development of the study of the material culture of Magna Graecia from the Renaissance to our times, while also showing that South Italy played a crucial role in the formation of the modern discipline of archaeology. The first is the development of what eventually crystallised during the nineteenth century as the discipline of archaeology: Ceserani explores how the discipline emerged out of the interaction between antiquarian studies, travel writing and narrative historiography and follows the interaction between these different genres even after the development of archaeology as a distinct discipline. 1-16) explains, this study of the historiography of Magna Graecia is situated along three important axes. The book examines the historiography of the study of the history and archaeology of Magna Graecia from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. This is particularly important, for the history of historiography should constitute an essential aspect of novel ways of thinking about Greek history in the ancient Mediterranean world Ceserani's book offers a powerful illustration of this argument. ![]() ISBN: 978-0-19-974427-5.Ĭeserani's book is the second in the new OUP series Greeks Overseas, which aims to undermine the divide between colonial and metropolitan Greeks. xiii + 331 + 1 map + 17 black & white figures. Italy's Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology.
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