List of illustrations
List of contributors
Maps
A note on names
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction: approaching the western Greeks
Kathryn Lomas
Concepts and models
2. Concepts and models of settlement in the western Mediterranean
Robin Osborne
3. Cultural networks and identities in the western Mediterranean
Adolfo J. Domínguez
4. Myth and identity
Mark R. Thatcher
5. Framing Greek presence in the west: a sociology of ‘Greek colonisation’
Lieve Donnellan
6. Postcolonial criticism and Magna Graecia
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Historical and archaeological development
7. Explorers, traders, pirates and refugees: the Aegean presence in southern Italy and Sicily before Greek colonisation
Davide Tanasi
8. The earliest Greek settlements in Italy and Sicily: sources and evidence
Valentino Nizzo
9. From settlement to polis: the establishment of the Greek city in the seventh–sixth centuries BC
Giulia Saltini Semerari
10. Archaic and classical Magna Graecia: lines of historical development
Maurizio Giangiulio
11. Sicily in the sixth and fifth centuries
Gillian Shepherd
12. Sicily from Dionysius I to the Roman sack of Syracuse
Richard Evans
13. The Roman conquest: Magna Graecia from Pyrrhus to Hannibal
Giovanna De Sensi Sestito
14. From Greek to Roman: Magna Graecia from the end of the Punic wars to the early empire
Kathryn Lomas
15. Roman Sicily
Laura Pfuntner
Greeks and others: Greeks and non-Greeks in the western Mediterranean
16. Greeks and others in Campania
Carmine Pellegrino
17. Greeks, Lucanians, and Brettians
Ilaria Battiloro
18. “A bane to the Iapygians”: Greek-indigenous relations in southeast Italy
Edward Herring
19. Sicans and Greeks in central western Sicily in the archaic age
Francesca Spatafora
20. Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily and Magna Graecia
Gabriella Sciortino
21. The western Greek World and central Italy: contacts with Etruria and Rome
Maria Raffaella Ciuccarrelli
22. Greeks, Greek settlements and relations with non-Greeks in the Far Occident (France and Spain) (seventh-first centuries BC)
Michel Bats (with contributions by Rosa Plana-Mallart and Marta Santos-Retolaza)
Agriculture, trade, craft production and material culture
23. Landscape, rural settlement and agrarian production in archaic Magna Graecia and Sicily: a landscape archaeological view
Peter Attema
24. Agriculture and agrarian changes in Magna Graecia in the Roman period
Alastair M. Small
25. The Straits of Otranto: a network node in Mediterranean trade from the archaic to late Hellenistic periods
Carlo De Mitri
26. Building the city: urban development in the archaic and classical periods
Emanuele Greco
27. Public architecture in Sicily and Magna Grecia
Spencer Pope
28. Domestic architecture: rural housing in Magna Graecia and Sicily between the fourth and the first centuries BC
Valentina Trotta
29. Greek sculpture in Sicily and South Italy from the Geometric to the Classical period
Clemente Marconi
30. Apulian and Lucanian red-figure pottery: production, use and reception
T.H. Carpenter
31. Textile production in Magna Graecia
Margarita Gleba and Francesco Meo
32. Coins and the transfer of cultures in Magna Graecia and Sicily
Keith Rutter
Culture and society in the Greek west
33. Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law codes and their development
Loredana Cappelletti
34. Armies, mercenaries, and the nature of war
Joshua R. Hall
35. Women in the colonial and indigenous world
Francesca Fulminante and Tamar Hodos
36. Shaping (and rethinking) the sacred in Magna Graecia: sanctuaries, votives and ritual practices in the western colonies
Valeria Parisi
37. Sport, games and athletic festivals in Magna Graecia and Sicily
Diva di Nanni
38. Literacy and the development of writing in the western Mediterranean
Stefania De Vido
39. Medicine in Magna Graecia
Luigi Vecchio
40. Science and engineering
Aimee Schofield
41. The development of philosophy in Magna Graecia
Benjamin Harriman
42. Poetry and performance in the Greek west
Federico Favi and Peter Wilson
43. Feasting, drinking, and food in the culture of Magna Graecia
Adam Rabinowitz
Index
Biography
Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Research Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Durham and the University of Newcastle. She is the author of The Rise of Rome (2017), Roman Italy: A Sourcebook (1996), and Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC-AD 200 (1993).
