“Magna Graecia” is Latin for “Great Greece” — and was it ever “great” during the time many of these works were created. Cleveland is the first city on the tour of these art works culled from seven ...

The rivalry between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean culminated in the three Punic Wars, fought between the two powers from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C., ending in Roman victory.

Craco, a ghost town in Italy, located in the province of Matera about 25 miles inland from the Gulf of Taranto, was once ...

A world-class archaeological exhibition opened this week in Calabria, in the toe of Italy. Its subject is Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece - the name given to parts of southern Italy colonised by the ...

"Beyond Attica: Art of Magna Graecia" is an exceptional collection of vase-wear from early Athenian black-figure to later Apulian, Campanian and Lucanian red-figure vessels from south Italy. Greek ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two "exceptional" temples in a major ancient Greek city that changed hands several times over the centuries and whose history stretches back around 2,600 years. The ...

The Journal of Roman Studies publishes papers in the full range of the field which the Roman Society was established to promote, i.e. 'the study of the history, archaeology, literature and art of ...

Taranto owes its origins to the Spartans who founded it in the 8th century BC with the name Taras (Τάρας). At that time, the Apulian city became one of the most important polis in Magna Graecia, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1948, the Journal of the American Musicological Society welcomes topics from all fields of musical inquiry, including ...