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To: Heatseeker

It's a metaphorical use, which is about the best that Magna Graecia can get these days. Even the real MG was just a constellation, so to speak, a perceived nation, actually the legally disconnected colonies established by Greeks and bearing Greek culture far from the homeland.
Nice to hear someone mention MG, even metaphorically.


7 posted on 07/08/2005 6:50:00 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: Graymatter
I took it too literally I guess. I certainly agree it's nice to see Magna Graecia mentioned under any circumstances. Interesting that some of the stuff on the Internet about seems to include Sicily, which I had never heard associated with MG though it certainly had Greek colonies.
8 posted on 07/08/2005 8:39:21 AM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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