Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)
The History of English Podcast
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The Greek Dark Ages
With the collapse of Hittite kingdom and Mycenaean Greek civilization, a major power vacuum resulted in areas around modern day Lebanon and Israel. The new alphabet allowed poets and authors to write down their words for the first time several centuries later. And thanks to the alphabet, literacy spread like wildfire. One of the first works written in this new alphabet was a collection of epic poems about that great conflict, the Trojan War.
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