Eric Cline
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first heard Jul 2026
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So the Mycenaeans are on the Greek mainland, right?
You've got the Minoans on Crete, but you've got the Mycenaeans on the mainland.
They both are on the periphery of the world that we've just described.
So we've got mentions by the Egyptians of the Mycenaeans.
They knew them as Tanaia.
That was their name for mainland Greece.
They knew the Minoans as the Keftiu.
And we've also got the Hittites mentioning the Mycenaeans.
They're probably Akiyawa.
But we don't have any evidence of kings marrying daughters or princesses from the other area.
We don't have that for the Mycenaeans.
So while they're in the commercial orbit and probably also diplomatic to a certain extent, they don't seem to be in the middle of the rest of them, as you might imagine.
But then again, Greece is out on the edge if you look at a map.
Yes, but the Mycenaeans themselves, they're in control of the whole Greek mainland.
We've got a whole series of kingdoms or city-states, if you will.
Yes, absolutely.
Culture, language, religion, absolutely.
In fact, a lot of the later Greek gods and goddesses, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Athena, they're already around in the Mycenaean period.
We know this because we're able to read their writing.
It's very early type of Greek.
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