Eric Cline

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Mycenaean World · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

We have some textural evidence of disease.

I mean, basically everything that could go wrong did go wrong pretty much simultaneously.

So the whole thing collapses and they have to rebuild.

Greece goes back to almost ground zero.

But, you know, you mentioned a veil of tears and a curtain and such.

I frequently call it in my lectures now a porous membrane.

Some things made it through.

Some things got through, but most did not.

The names of the gods and goddesses, yes, those got through.

But the Wanox, the king, there's no Wanox in the Iron Age.

There's no Wanox in Homer's time.

It's now Basileus.

name for king is Basileus in his time.

There was a Basileus.

There were a bunch of them back in the Bronze Age, but they were much lower officials.

They were below the monarchs.

So, you know, so some things make it through and some things don't.

But Greece takes until the early 8th century, just before the time of Homer, to get back up to where it had been

at the time of the Mycenaeans.

I mean, there was a huge population decline, maybe as much as 60%.

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