THE ODYSSEY OF ODYSSEUS. THE MYCENAEAN COLONIZATION in SICILY and SOUTH ITALY, From 1.300 B.C... English and Italian text ***** IL VIAGGIO DI ULISSE . LA COLONIZZAZIONE MICENEA IN SICILIA E NELL'ITALIA MERIDIONALE, DAL 1300 a.C. (FONTI).

MYCENAEAN CITIES IN THE APENNINE PENINSULA- SOUTH ITALY A large number of Achaean kings, after the long Trojan War (lasting more than ten years), lost their kingdoms to usurpers. They were therefore forced to abandon their lands and seek new homelands and new kingdoms. The most attractive regions were Sicily and the southern Apennine Peninsula, where, centuries earlier, Greeks from the Minoan kingdoms of Crete, the Aegean, and the Cycladic islands (long before 3000 -2.000 BC) had already settled in significant numbers as farmers and merchants. The fall of Troy marks the end of the Bronze Age: the collapse of the mighty palaces of the era and the beginning of a new age—the Iron Age—marked by the dominance of the Dorians (Spartans, Macedonians, Epirotes, etc.) in the regions surrounding the Aegean. At that time, many kings of the Bronze Age kingdoms began a massive exodus from their palaces, moving toward the central Mediterranean, particularly Sicily and southern Italy, exactly as Homer describes in the Odyssey. ANCIENT SOURCES .....