CAS CL 101 Lecture 6: Lecture 6_Greeks and their Near Eastern Neighbors.pdf

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Lecture 6: the neighbors of the ancient greeks in the ancient near east. Linear b was deciphered in 1952, turned out to be ancient greek. Sites on the greek mainland: mycenae, pylos, thebes: places known from homer as strongholds in the heroic age. Greek gods names were on many mycenaean tablets. Gods such as: zeus, hera, dionysus, poseidon, artemis. Remember: linear b was not primarily used for financial and administrative purposes. Answer: god"s names used in these records to record sacrifices made to them. For example, in an administrative document, you would see: 3 bulls sacrificed to zeus . Homeric epics describe in accurate detail places and objects which never existed in the world after the mycenaean era. Eg homeric description of the mighty walls of tiryns. Ajax"s shield in the iliad is a bronze age wall shield, not the typical round light shield (aspis) expected of the greeks in later times.

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