Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology
by
Giovanna Ceserani
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Italy's Lost Greece is the untold story of the modern engagement with the ancient Greek settlements of South Italy--an area known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This "Greater Greece," at once Greek and Italian, has continuously been perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden...