Straight Outta Greece: The Age of Expansion
Update: 2025-11-01
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Ancient Greece was defined by its culture, not by its borders. Starting in the 8th century BCE, Greeks planted settlements in southern Italy and Sicily — so many that the area came to be known as Magna Graecia, "Great Greece." Hellenic settlements soon spread to other parts of the Mediterranean and also to the northeast, even surrounding the Black Sea. This episode takes you on a whirlwind tour of Greek settlements, then focuses in on Cyrene, a thoroughly Greek city located in North Africa.
For maps and photos accompanying this episode, check out Episode 12 at epicgreekhistory.substack.com.
Reading Suggestions:
The Greeks Overseas by John Boardman
Wandering Greeks by Robert Garland
Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne
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