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unusual facts about Mycenaean Greek


Diccionario Griego-EspaƱol

That revision involved, first, incorporating Mycenaean Greek and Patristic writings, as well as personal and place names, which were all absent from the LSJ.


Enkhelyawon

Because of this it is assumed that he was a king (Mycenaean wanax, Linear B wa-na-ka), and ruled over Pylos.

Philology

Linear B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known as Mycenaean Greek.


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Georgian folk medicine

Classical Greek mythology suggests that ancient Kolkhs (Colchis people) had practiced somewhat highly developed medicine that must have impressed the Mycenaean Greek travelers at the time.