Hatched territories will be claimed after formation. At least four lighter purple territories and at least one pink territory must be directly owned. Requirements for forming Magna Graecia by the mission task. Only once the majority of the Italiote cities are united under common leadership will the legacy of the Greek colonies in the west be safeguarded and its future secured. The current ruler gets the nickname "Omagyrios".Owns at least 1 of the following territories:.Get claims on all unowned territories in the region of Magna Graecia.Capital gets the modifier Emergent Capital until the end of the game, giving:.If the capital has the modifier Emergent Center of Civilization, remove it.Add 4 citizen pops and 4 freemen pops to the current capital.Owns or has a subject that owns at least 1 of the following territories:.Owns at least 4 of the following territories:.The mission Greater Greece is not active.Is not AI-controlled, owns at least 5 territories, or is Syracusae.The capital is in the regions of Magna Graecia, Italia, or Cisalpine Gaul.Country is in the Hellenistic culture group.Magna Graecia can also be released as a client state in two different ways: by Epirus from the conquered cities of the Italiote mainland through its unique missions as a possible reward for a successful Pyrrhic War (requiring the Epirus Flavor Pack), or by Egypt from its set of unique missions as a reward for expanding its influence over the area (requiring the Heirs of Alexander DLC). Historically a unification of the Greeks in Italy was a constant ambition of the kings of Syracusae, who attempted many times to subjugate and conquer the other Greeks of Sicily and beyond with varying levels of success, though no truly unified state or league would emerge and the divided states of Magna Graecia would eventually come under Roman rule after the withdrawal of Epirus. Despite being a tier 3 endgame tag, forming Magna Graecia has only relatively modest requirements - within a single region - and similarly more modest rewards, though it will likely require contending with significantly stronger powers of Rome and Carthage. It can be formed by any Hellenistic country with its capital in one of the three Italian regions, and requires asserting control over enough of the important Greek cities of the region, some of whom have since fallen under the control of Italic powers such as Bruttia, Lucania, and Rome. Farney (eds), Handbook on the Ancient Italic Groups.Magna Graecia is a formable nation in southern Europe, representing a unification of the rich and influential Hellenistic city states of southern Italy. Cooley (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy, 253-68. Cooley (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy: 237-52. Cooley (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy, 217-36. ‘Language and literacy in Roman Italy’ A.E. École française de Rome, Paris/Rome (2016). Collection de l’École française de Rome 502.
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I am working on a number of publications, including a new edition of a book on Roman Italy, a major new edited volume on Magna Graecia, and a book on Rome and Italy in the late Republic. Since 2008, I have taught part-time at a number of universities and currently hold Honorary Research Fellowships at the University of Durham and the University of Newcastle. I have previously held academic posts at UCL (Research Fellow in History 1989-94 Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology, 2002-2008) and the University of Newcastle (Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1994-1997 Lecturer in Ancient History, 1997-2002). My main research interests are in the development of ethnic and cultural identities in ancient Italy and the western Mediterranean, urbanisation and state formation, cultural memory in early societies, and epigraphy and literacy in early Italy.