Two panoramas of the Mediterranean: An overview of the novel Aganta Burina Burinata by the Fisherman of Halicarnassus in the light of Fernand Braudel’s three-layered time method

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Abstract: Historian Fernand Braudel criticized the traditional understanding of history and objected to the analysis of time as unidirectional linearity. Instead, he advocated multiple temporalities and developed a three-layered time method. In The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II , he used this model as he wrote about the Mediterranean, which he claimed to love passionately. On the other hand, the Fisherman of Halicarnassus used the Mediterranean as the protagonist of the novel Aganta Burina Burinata , similar to many of his other works in different genres. In this article, Braudel’s three-layered time method, first tested in his masterpiece novel, is applied to the novel Aganta Burina Burinata. In addition to analysing the novel by using this historical method, the article also traces the similarities between the meaning attached to the Mediterranean by Braudel and the Fisherman of Halicarnassus as well as the place it holds in their minds.