Italy and the Aegean, 3000-700 B.C.

The following pages are a study of the relations between Greece and the peoples of Italy and Sicily beginning with the opening of the Bronze Age. These early relations come to an end with the Greek colonization of the eighth century B.C., which was thus preceded by more than 2,000 years of contact. The work offered here seeks to put the colonizing movement into this perspective. -- From preface.