A leader of a city in this region is credited with inventing a flying device called "The Pigeon" and is the namesake of a curve used to solve the doubling the cube problem.
A leader of a city in this region is credited with inventing a flying device called "The Pigeon" and is the namesake of a curve used to solve the doubling the cube problem. A famous athlete from this region apocryphally died when he became trapped by a tree he was trying to tear apart by hand and was eaten by wolves. Despite enlisting the aid of Hiero I of Syracuse, a city in this region was abandoned in the mid-5th century BCE and the city of Thurii was founded on roughly the same site shortly after. Tarquin the Proud died in exile in a city in this region. Cities in this region included (*) Kroton, Tarentum, the supposedly extravagant Sybaris, and the home of the most famous of the Sibyls, Cumae. For 10 points, identify this region of southern Italy named for its high number of settlers from across the Ionian Sea.
A leader of a city in this region is credited with inventing a flying device called "The Pigeon" and is the namesake of a curve used to solve the doubling the cube problem.
Magna Graecia (accept Megale Hellas or [reluctantly] Great Greece; prompt on southern Italy)