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1/ The Greek colonization (8th-6th century BC) was one of the greatest feats of Hellenism, both in terms of the extent of the spread of the venture, and as to the meager means of the time which were available to support a so grand endeavour.
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2/ The adventurous colonization venture carried out by the Dorian settlers of Thera, who left their barren island and in search of a better future, followed the southern Mediterranean sea trade route, establishing Cyrene on the Libyan coast, is included in this context.
3/ As Herodotus reveals to us in great detail in the fourth book of his Histories, when the king of Thera, Grinnos, went to Delphi to receive an oracle regarding matters of the island, Pythia answered him that he should build a city in Libya.
