SIKELIOTAI, ITALIOTAI E ITALIKOI. LE TESTIMONIANZE GRECHE NELL’ADRIATICO

Abstract

In the field of emigration and the mobility of individuals in the ancient world, few studies have addressed
the presence of Greeks from Sicily and Magna Graecia and of Italics from the southern regions towards the
Adriatic Sea, as evidenced by inscriptions. At present, we can verify their presence on the basis of onomastics,
composed almost exclusively of the individual's proper name, sometimes followed by the patronymic
and, in an isolated case, the ethnic. The evidence concerning Magna Graecia is very doubtful. Individuals
from this area are apparently absent from the Greek epigraphy of the Adriatic Sea, whereas they are well
present south of the Otranto Channel.