1. Introduction: Approaches to the Western Greek world - Kathryn Lomas; Concepts and models;
2. Concepts and models of settlement in the Western Mediterranean - Robin Osborne;
3. Cultural Networks and Identities in the Western Mediterranean - Adolfo J. Dominguez;
4. Myth and Identity - Mark Thatcher;
5. Framing Greek presence in the West: a sociology of ‘Greek colonisation’ - Lieve Donnellan;
6. Postcolonial criticism and Magna Graecia - Gabriel Zuchtriegel; Historical and archaeological development;
7. Explorers, traders, pirates and refugees. The Aegean presence in Southern Italy and Sicily before Greek colonisation - Davide Tanasi;
8. The earliest Greek settlements in Italy and Sicily: Sources and evidence - Valentino Nizzo;
9. From settlement to Polis: The establishment of the Greek city in the Seventh?Sixth centuries BC - Giulia Saltini Semerari;
10. Archaic and classical Magna Graecia: lines of historical development - Maurizio Giangiulio;
11. Sicily in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries - Gillian Shepherd;
12. Sicily from Dionysius I to the Roman Sack of Syracuse - Richard Evans;
13. The Roman Conquest: Magna Graecia from Pyrrhus to Hannibal - Giovanna De Sensi Sestito; Kathryn Lomas;
15. Roman Sicily - Laura Pfuntner; Greeks and Others: Greeks and non-Greeks in the Western Mediterranean;
16. Greeks and others in Campania - Carmine Pellegrino;
17. Greeks, Lucanians and Bruttians - Ilaria Battiloro;
18. “A bane to the Iapygians”. Greek-indigenous relations in south-east Italy - Edward Herring;
19. Sicans and Greeks in Central Western Sicily in the Archaic Age - Francesca Spatafora;
20. Greeks and Phoenicians in Sicily and Magna Graecia - Gabriella Sciortino;
21. The Western Greek world and central Italy: contacts with Etruria and Rome - Maria Rafaella Ciuccarelli;
22. Greeks, Greek settlements and relations with non-Greeks in the Far Occident (France and Spain) (Seventh-First centuries BC) - Michel Bats (with contributions by Rosa Plana-Mallart and Marta Santos-Retolaza); Agriculture, Trade, Craft Production and Material Culture;
23. Landscape, rural settlement and agrarian production in archaic Magna Graecia and Sicily. A landscape archaeological view - Peter Attema;
24. Agriculture and agrarian changes in Magna Graecia in the Roman period - Alastair M. Small;
25. The Straits of Otranto: a network node in Mediterranean trade from the Archaic to Late Hellenistic periods - Carlo De Mitri;
26. Building the city: Urban development in the Archaic and Classical periods - Emanuele Greco;
27. Public Architecture in Sicily and Magna Grecia - Spencer Pope; Rural housing in Magna Graecia and Sicily between the fourth and the first centuries BC - Valentina Trotta;
29. Greek Sculpture in Sicily and South Italy from the Geometric to the Classical Period - Clemente Marconi;
30. Apulian and Lucanian red-figure pottery: production, use and reception - T.H. Carpenter;
31. Textile production in Magna Graecia - Margarita Gleba and Francesco Meo;
32. Coins and the transfer of cultures in Magna Graecia and Sicily - †Keith Rutter; Culture and Society in the Greek west;
33. Ruling the city: civic constitutions, law-codes and their development - Loredana Cappelletti;
34. Armies, Mercenaries, and the Nature of War - Joshua R. Hall;
35. Women in the colonial and indigenous worlds of the western Mediterranean - Francesca Fulminante and Tamar Hodos;
36. Shaping (and rethinking) the sacred in Magna Graecia. Sanctuaries, votives and ritual practices in the Western colonies - Valeria Parisi;
37. Sport, Games and Athletic Festivals in Magna Graecia and Sicily - Diva di Nanni;
38. Literacy and the development of writing in the western Mediterranean - Stefania De Vido;
39. Medicine in Magna Graecia - Luigi Vecchio;
40. Science and Engineering - Aimee Schofield;
41. The Development of Philosophy in Magna Graecia - Benjamin Harriman;
42. Poetry and Performance in the Greek West - Federico Favi and Peter Wilson;
43. Feasting, drinking, and food in the culture of Magna Graecia - Adam Rabinowitz.