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    other symbols. Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th...
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    distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system. The Mycenaeans were mainland...
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  • in Mycenaean Greek, written in Linear B. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Many of the Greek deities...
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  • Greek and other roots, e.g., 'television' (< Greek τῆλε + English vision < Latin visio); these are often shared among the modern European languages,...
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    common ancestor of all varieties of Greek, including Mycenaean Greek, the subsequent ancient Greek dialects (i.e., Attic, Ionic, Aeolic, Doric, Arcadocypriot...
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    Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly...
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    The Greek Dark Ages was the period of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization, around 1100 BC, to the beginning of the Archaic...
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    Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of Ancient languages. Raymoure, K.A. "ma-ra-tu-wo". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean. Archived from the...
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    Linear B (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries...
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  • Allative case (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    and John Chadwick. Documents in Mycenaean Greek Ἀθήναζε. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project...
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  • Paean (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    Sung". Paean, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, at Perseus Mycenaean Greek 𐀞𐀊𐀺𐀚, pa-ja-wo-ne /pajāwonei/ (dat.), written...
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  • The religious element is difficult to identify in Mycenaean Greece (c. 1600–1100 BC), especially as regards archaeological sites, where it remains very...
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    Anax (redirect from Anax (Greek))
    the other being basileus, and is inherited from Mycenaean Greece. It is notably used in Homeric Greek, e.g. for Agamemnon. The feminine form is anassa...
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  • Peloponnese in Greece Mycenaean Greece, the Greek-speaking regions of the Aegean Sea as of the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean language, an ancient form of Greek Helladic...
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  • Assuwa (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    Assuwa (Hittite: 𒀸𒋗𒉿, romanized: aš-šu-wa; Mycenaean Greek: 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊, romanized: a-si-wi-ja) was a confederation of 22 states in western Anatolia around...
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  • The Pre-Greek substrate (or Pre-Greek substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the advent...
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    Thebes (/ˈθiːbz/; Greek: Θήβα, Thíva [ˈθiva]; Ancient Greek: Θῆβαι, Thêbai [tʰɛ̂ːbai̯]) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece, and is one of the oldest...
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  • For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals. The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations' Linear A and Linear B alphabets used...
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    Xiphos (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    the point, and ending in a very long point. The word is attested in Mycenaean Greek Linear B form as 𐀥𐀯𐀟𐀁, qi-si-pe-e. A relation to Arabic saifun...
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    Zeus (redirect from Zeus the Greek god)
    Indo-European etymology. The earliest attested forms of the name are the Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀸, di-we and 𐀇𐀺, di-wo, written in the Linear B syllabic script...
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    including Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete. In a Linear B Mycenaean Greek inscription on a tablet found at Pylos dated 1400–1200 BC, John Chadwick...
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    In ancient Greece, the drachma (Greek: δραχμή, romanized: drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states...
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    Ares (redirect from Greek god of war)
    Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs [árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were...
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    Sparta (redirect from Greek Spartan)
    is the Mycenaean Greek 𐀨𐀐𐀅𐀖𐀛𐀍, ra-ke-da-mi-ni-jo, "Lakedaimonian", written in Linear B syllabic script, the equivalent of the later Greek Λακεδαιμόνιος...
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    is the Mycenaean Greek *hermāhās, written 𐀁𐀔𐁀 e-ma-a2 (e-ma-ha) in the Linear B syllabic script. Most scholars derive "Hermes" from Greek ἕρμα (herma)...
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    likely encodes a non-Greek language). The language of the Linear B texts, Mycenaean Greek, is the earliest known form of Greek. Another similar system...
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    15th century BC Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀠𐀪𐀍, ku-pi-ri-jo, meaning "Cypriot" (Greek: Κύπριος), written in Linear B syllabic script. The classical Greek form of the...
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    Dorian invasion (category Articles containing Mycenaean Greek-language text)
    inscriptions. The language of the Linear B texts is an early form of Greek now known as Mycenaean Greek. Comparing it with the later Greek dialects scholars...
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    literary Greek. Likewise, Modern Greek is divided into several dialects, most derived from Koine Greek. The earliest known Greek dialect is Mycenaean Greek, the...
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    into Greek from the Proto-Indo-European language. In that regard Graves proposed the only Greek derivation available: Perseus might be from the Greek verb...
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