Transformations and Crisis in the Mediterranean. "Identity" and Interculturality in the Levant and Phoenician West during the 5th-2nd centuries BCE.

With this volume, the third in the TCM series, we have reached the final stage of the pathtraced by the project of the same name, dedicated to investigating the forms of self-determinationimplemented by ancient communities, manifested in the most varied cultural expressions. As wehave pointed out on several occasions, the research was developed through the presentation ofnumerous case studies set - thanks to the participation of Italian and foreign colleagues, specialistsin different disciplines - in the lands of the "Middle Sea", our "sea of mediation", starting fromthe Levantine regions, reaching the westernmost shores of the Mediterranean and extending as faras the Atlantic coasts of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. At the centre of the project wereplaced the peoples of eastern origin and tradition - the Phoenicians in the first place - observedboth from a longue durée perspective and with a special attention to individual, local phenomenaand events, particularly in the dimension of interaction and exchange.