Search Results: Magna Graecia

The Mediterranean island of Sicily, with its natural resources and strategic position on ancient trading routes, aroused the intense interest of successive empires from Carthage to Athens to Rome. Consequently, the island was never far from...

Greek architecture is concerned with simplicity, proportion, perspective, and harmony in buildings. Greek architecture includes some of the finest and most distinctive buildings ever built. Examples of Greek architecture include temples...

This modern reconstruction digitally restores a Roman theatre in Leptis Magna. Located in Khoms, Libya.

Arch with four sides, dedicated to Septimius Severus and his family. 2nd century CE, Leptis Magna (Libya)

Artist's depiction of the bathouse complex at Leptis Magna, by Rocío Espin.

Athena is draped in a sleeveless Doric peplos with an apoptygma (folding over at the top), and attached on her shoulder and girdled above her waist. Her bust is too small for her arms and legs. She wears a round helmet. Marble. Roman Period...

The Old Roman Forum of Leptis Magna.

One of the heads of Gorgon from the new severan forum, Leptis Magna (Libya). 3rd century CE.

There are at least a thousand reasons to visit Sicily, the great island – indeed the largest in the Mediterranean – that forms the triangular football to the boot that is the Italian peninsula. They are all very good reasons, including amazing...

Agathocles of Syracuse (c. 361 - 289 BCE) ruled as tyrant of the Sicilian city for over 25 years. Ambitious, unprincipled, and seeing himself as a new Alexander, he famously attacked Carthage in a three-year campaign and made conquests in...