01906 a2200397 4500 1138991783 20250317100400.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138991781 Taylor & Francis GBP 47.99 BB 01 eng DB thema DSBB thema DC thema NKD thema NHC thema 1QBAG bisac 1QBA bisac DB bic DSBB bic DC bic HDDK bic HBLA1 bic 1QDAG bisac LIT004190 bisac HIS002000 bisac HIS002010 bisac 913.3 bisac T. Webster From Mycenae to Homer A Study in Early Greek Literature and Art 1 Oxford Routledge 20151126 376 p This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two. 1149 1149