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From Mycenae to Homer - A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art (Hardcover)
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From Mycenae to Homer - A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Homer
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This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and
poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often
referred to as the Greek 'Dark Ages'), and to explore the
possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own
documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster
utilises Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B in 1952 - which
proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world - to determine
the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the
time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they
record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer
was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis
civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean.
Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot
have survived until Homer's time, they tell us something about the
poetry which connected the two.
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