Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, La "tavoletta di Alcmena". Gli antichi Greci e la memoria del proprio passato, Teatro Vocali Edizioni (Collana "Fiori di Cactus" N. 8, ISSN 2240-7782), Castellazzo Bormida 2012

The book analyzes a passage from Sophocles ("Trachiniae", vv. 153-160) and another from Plutarch ("De genio Socratis", 5, 577 F) in which two tablets inscribed in "mysteric" characters are cited, in all probability documents, instead, written in Linear B, the syllabic Aegean writing used for the transcription of the (already Greek) Mycenaean dialect. Basing his research on the analysis of these two passages, the Author elaborates a new theory regarding the perception of the ancient Greeks about their past before the so-called 'Dark Ages'. The essay is, therefore, a contribution - in the field of Mycenaeology - to the study of the issue of the origins of Greek populations and it approaches for the first time, in this interpretive key, the two quoted passages. The book is accompanied by chronologies, by a set of illustrations, by a detailed and updated bibliography on the subject, and by maps.