Italiotes
The Italiotes were the ancients speaking the Greek in the Grande Greece Italian. The italiotes are the descendants of the Greek colonists, which clearly distinguishes them from the inhabitants not-Greeks of the south of Italy.
After their tender by the ancient Rome and starting from the III E, the italiotes will diffuse the culture and the Greek language S in Rome, to the great displeasure of the Roman conservatives like Caton Old the. The graeculi , the small Greeks, will translate and introduce epic poetry into the Roman culture through legends like the Odyssey and will make to Ulysses a Roman hero. They will also translate many works of science and the Greek techniques like those of the manufactured potteries and other goods will become popular. Bilingualism becomes of rule among the Nobiles . This phenomenon will increase until the catch of the Greece. The surge of the gréco-Eastern slaves then will take over.
See too
- Sicéliotes
- Italic People
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