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To: Verginius Rufus

Thanks VR. It would be nice to find any literary text in Linear B.


12 posted on 06/20/2025 10:22:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv
It would be nice to find any literary text in Linear B.

Very true. Contemporary rulers in Egypt and elsewhere created monuments boasting of their achievements (even though few of their subjects could read) but the Mycenaean and Minoan rulers never did. We have one Hittite text referring to the ruler of "Achaia" but it fails to give his name. The Minoans were in contact with Egypt and are even depicted in Egyptian art, but they don't mention any rulers' names either.

13 posted on 06/21/2025 3:35:37 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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