Wars & Conflicts · 1200 BCE
Bronze Age Collapse
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The catastrophic collapse of palace cultures across the Mediterranean destroyed patronage networks and forced a cultural reset. The Homeric epics that crystallized from this trauma (the Iliad, the Odyssey) became the mythological reservoir that Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art would draw from for 2,500 years.
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