Eric Cline
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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We call it Linear B, but it is very early Greek, deciphered by Michael Ventris back in 1952.
And we can find out a lot about the Mycenaean culture at that time.
Now, we've got different city-states, kingdoms, if you will.
You've got the famous ones, Mycenae.
Tyrans, Pylos, and so on.
Each of them has their own king, which we know from the linear B tablets.
He's called a Wanax.
Each of those Wanax or Wanakai has a warrior cast beneath them.
And then below that, you've got your normal people.
Below that, you've got your peasants.
We can figure out the social classes back then.
And we can also figure out exactly what's going on in the palaces.
Simply put, they're in charge of everything.
Taxes, economy, administration.
When the capital cities, when the king, when the palace is doing well, everybody's doing well.
When they fall, the whole thing collapses.
Yes, we think that's a good way to put it.
Homer's writing a couple of centuries later, or rather Homer's pulling everything together a couple of centuries later.
But he seems to be describing kind of a combination of his own period, but with memories of the Bronze Age.
So he does mention things that were not around in his time period, but our Bronze Age.
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