Ebook: The ‘Mycenaeans’ in the Central Mediterranean: a Comparison between the Adriatic and the Tyrrhenian Seaways

Статья // PASIPHAE. Rivista di filologia e antichita Egee. — 2009. — № 3 — Pp. 27-38.The subject of the relationships of the peninsular Italy and adjacent islands communities with the Late Bronze Age seafarers coming from the Eastern Mediterranean has been widely discussed. Important contributions to this discussion have come out in the most recent years too.
Nevertheless in the Authors’ opinion some aspects of this subject deserve a further consideration, also bearing in mind the new archaeological discoveries mainly (but not only) made in the Adriatic side of the Italian peninsula.
The paper propose a comparative view of the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic seas during the 2nd millennium BC, these seas figuratively corresponding to wide passageways, which conditioned the directions of seafaring trade in the Central Mediterranean.