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1. noncoml · 1789708205 · focus · HN ↗

   > early Greeks, and especially the Mycenaeans (c. 1750–1050 BCE), are associated with major advances in technology (including writing)

   I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.

   Before the collapse, Greeks were using Linear A and Linear B. It took them a few hundred years after the Bronze Age Collapse to learn how to write again, this time borrowing the Phoenician alphabet.

   Imagine what an event would look like today that would take us back 200-400 years technologically.

   1. dr_dshiv · 1789712275 · focus · HN ↗

      How long ago before the Myceneneans does there remain a coherent concept of Greek-ness?

      “Solon, oh Solon!” — are Greeks truly ancient or relative newcomers in a seafaring land?

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