Magna Graecia
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Greece which was called Magna · Italy
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
The region of Greek cities in southern Italy where Pythagorean teaching flourished.
For who is there who would think, when Greece flourished in Italy with its most powerful and greatest cities — that which was called Magna Graecia — and when in these, first the name of Pythagoras himself, then afterward that of the Pythagoreans, was so great, that the ears of our countrymen were closed to their most learned utterances?
Who, when after this conversation at Phlius he had come into Italy, adorned that Greece which was called Magna, both privately and publicly, with most excellent institutions and arts.
Institutes of Roman Law
The Greek cities of southern Italy whose civilization influenced Rome, including the Twelve Tables.
but it was, at the least, an inevitable result of the prolonged influence of the civilization of Magna Graecia, to which Rome had been subject from the days of her infancy—an influence which successively moulded her army, her coinage, her commerce and her literature.
Rome gained some ideas from the Hellenised East, as in early days she had gained some from Magna Graecia.