Eric Cline

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

But we do have adjacent things.

For example, we've got a lot of gift-giving, especially in the Near East, those letters out of Marna in Egypt that I mentioned.

The kings, when they're writing back and forth, they are always saying, with my message, I am sending a gift.

here it is three chariots five people this that and the other and that whole idea of gift giving goes i think along with the idea of friendship to strangers and all of that it does make sense in a way to me and you know could you tell the elite from a regular person i think of course

For one thing, they would have an entourage with them and all of that.

But, you know, to be honest, it is guesswork because at least for the Mycenaean records, their tablets are not talking about that.

They're strictly accounting and all that.

So it is a little bit, as I say, of guesswork there.

Maybe, maybe.

I definitely think you're not going to get your average tiller of the soil traipsing around, right?

What you're going to have, though, rather than the kings, unless they're going fighting, you're going to have their emissaries.

You're going to have the merchants.

You're going to have the diplomats going from one place to another, from Mycenae to Tiryns, Mycenae to Pylos.

And we do see things in the linear B tablets where they're talking about shipments from other kingdoms, basically, within the Mycenaean world.

Yeah, I think so.

That's how you would spread the news back then.

They didn't have the internet or texts and phones and all that.

So for sure.

We also, we have, for instance, there's one wall painting from Pylos down in south of mainland Greece, where we can actually see a bard singing with his harp or lyre.

And that may have been another way to spread the news as well with these kind of

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