The Mycenaean World

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In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script unexpectedly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars may be able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a vivid picture of life on this remote period, in a way which is not possible from archaeology on my own. John Chadwick, who assisted Ventris in the original decipherment, has played a major part in these advances. He now summarizes the result of research and in so doing opens the door to a new world, Mycenaean Greece seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. The tablets is also only, as he describes them, ‘the account books of anonymous clerks’, but from these prosaic documents he shows how we will be able to infer a bronze industry, foreign slave-women, or even human sacrifice. Not least necessary is the comparison of the newly to be had data with the Homeric account, much to the detriment of Homer’s credibility as a witness.

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