Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the Mycinean Greeks
The mycinean Greeks took control of Crete around 1450 BC. At this point in Greek history, there was no alphabet yet. The Minoans down on Crete had to work with the syllabic script known as Linear A. That old script was replaced with a completely new script called Linear B. In 1952, literally a few decades ago, that Linear B script was finally deciphered. And it turned out that the writings composed in that script were actually a very early form of Greek.
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