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Mentioned already in another thread, but I am reading 1177: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric Cline. My library has it on Hoopla. Make sure you get the revised 2021 edition because new evidence supporting some of the discussion came out since the original in 2014.
Basically, looks at the Late Bronze Age and the events leading to the collapse of several key Bronze Age societies in the 12th century BCE. Strong focus on how the societies in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean regions were linked through ties of trade and diplomacy with some discussion of similarities to modern globalization.
The last chapter I read did look at two well-known events whose historical basis likely lies in this time period : The Trojan War and The Exodus.
Evidence for the former is actually much stronger than the latter. Archaeology and Hittite records suggest at least four conflicts took place in the region where Troy existed during the late Bronze Age and that the Mycenean Greeks were involved in at least some of them. That means events from any or even all of those historical conflicts could have informed development of the later cycle of myth.
The Exodus, by contrast, has very little real historical or archaeological evidence to support the historicity of the story, just conjecture based on what we do know of the time. Even the theory that the Santorini eruption could have caused a tsunami that inspired the whole parting of the sea story no longer works since the dating for the eruption has changed based on new evidence.
Basically, looks at the Late Bronze Age and the events leading to the collapse of several key Bronze Age societies in the 12th century BCE. Strong focus on how the societies in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean regions were linked through ties of trade and diplomacy with some discussion of similarities to modern globalization.
The last chapter I read did look at two well-known events whose historical basis likely lies in this time period : The Trojan War and The Exodus.
Evidence for the former is actually much stronger than the latter. Archaeology and Hittite records suggest at least four conflicts took place in the region where Troy existed during the late Bronze Age and that the Mycenean Greeks were involved in at least some of them. That means events from any or even all of those historical conflicts could have informed development of the later cycle of myth.
The Exodus, by contrast, has very little real historical or archaeological evidence to support the historicity of the story, just conjecture based on what we do know of the time. Even the theory that the Santorini eruption could have caused a tsunami that inspired the whole parting of the sea story no longer works since the dating for the eruption has changed based on new evidence.
