21 luglio 365 : una crisi globale?

This article aims to analyse the tsunami of 21 July 365. According to some ancient writers, this tsunami was the most devastating natural disaster in the ancient world. Through the analysis of literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources, combined with the study of geological analyses, I try to understand whether this phenomenon really had a “global” scope, i.e. whether it affected almost all the lands of the Mediterranean basin. The debate on the power of this tidal wave has also interested many modern scholars, who have not yet arrived at an unambiguous solution.