This work puts a particular emphasis on the mixing and osmosis of the first Mediterranean civilizations, with particular reference to the Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, and Trojan, and on the causes of their decline, which are probably to be identified in a jumble of natural and human causes, and in a long-lasting, slow crisis, but irreversible.
It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality.
Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it.
It takes into account that the Mediterranean Dimension of the Bronze Age is a garden in which many legends flourished, clearly distinguishing between myth and history, and always bearing in mind that legends are not to be taken literally (nonetheless, they often have a grain of truth). It does not aim to provide an exhaustive report but to compose a broad and evolutionary picture, in which the facts and their connections, which are deducible from archaeological evidence or from the accounts of ancient historians, find their place, in their consequentiality.
Its originality lies not in the choice of the subject, but in the way of treating it.
The author introduces and explains, in order to be read, and perhaps to get excited. In communicating History, in fact, it is not possible to 'be read' if one fails to combine the scientific solidity of the research with the possibility of reconstructing events in the form of an exciting story.
It is not necessary to write a historical novel to tell history because history is itself a novel, but the narrative must be compelling.
Another characterizing element of "Knossos, Mycenae, Troy" is the wide use of the "historical present" that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader's distance from the narrated events, and facilitates his approach to them.
This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity, without making an academy, consistent with the eminently popularizing purposes of the text.
It is not necessary to write a historical novel to tell history because history is itself a novel, but the narrative must be compelling.
Another characterizing element of "Knossos, Mycenae, Troy" is the wide use of the "historical present" that is made there to represent events and construct the text, to reduce the reader's distance from the narrated events, and facilitates his approach to them.
This book aims to provide the reader with an overall picture of the cultures that laid the foundations of Western civilization, which is not generic, but rather detailed and updated, and which has scientific solidity, without making an academy, consistent with the eminently popularizing purposes of the text.
Information
| Pages | 286 |
| Publisher | Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9781636242323 |
| Volume characteristics | Paperback H240 x W170 (mm) B/w |