place
Magna Graecia
also: Magnam illam Graeciam, Magna Graecia, Greater Greece
The Greek-settled cities of southern Italy (Tarentum, Croton, Locri, and others), a major center of Greek philosophy and especially of the Pythagorean school. Cicero says Pythagoras 'held all that Magna Graecia in his grip.'
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.38 all that Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia, the Greek cities of southern Italy (Tarentum, Croton, etc.), where Pythagoras settled and his school dominated philosophical life for generations.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.2 Magna Graecia
The Greek-colonized cities of southern Italy, whose flourishing in the archaic age Cicero treats as the channel by which Pythagorean and Greek learning entered Italy.