Abstract
The aim of the book is to reconsider the evidence and the possible ways of explanation of the general situation of the end of the Bronze Age and the beginnings of the Iron Age (ca. 1300-800 BC) in Greece, the Mediterranean area and the temperate zone of Europe as far as interrelated in various fields, including the artistic styles, dress, weapons and armour, horsemanship, imagination and change of identity connected with the transition from myth to logos in the so-called axial period of human thought. It consists of revisited summaries of the subjects discussed in three earlier books by the author (Homerisches Griechenland, The Aegean.
Anatolia and Europe in the second millennium BC and Greece, Anatolia and Europe: cultural interrelations in the Early Iron Age), and of addenda to Graeco-Macedonian Bronzes and other minor studies and papers dealing with other aspects of tentative explanations from this field in an attempt of try a synthetic picture of available evidence. It contains exhaustive bibliography, many drawings, maps and plates in black and white and colour.