Thinking about "Fourth Millennium"
Added 2024-07-07 00:09:35 +0000 UTCComments
Oh, I'm assuming the Minoan off-shoot was already somewhat Hellenized when it got started - it didn't leave Crete until after the Mycenaean takeover circa 1400 BCE, so the language they took with them was probably a dialect of Mycenaean Greek written in Linear B. Then the offshoot colony got several centuries of Greek immigration, so that most of their ancestry by Classical times was Doric Greek instead of Minoan. Most of the Minoan survivals are cultural and religious - a matriarchal priestly class, an unusual amount of gender egalitarianism in society at large, a somewhat different set of favored deity cults than you would find back in Hellas.
Jon F. Zeigler
2024-07-08 00:53:34 +0000 UTCI’m really curious how you will handle language for your latter-day Minoans, given that Linear A remains undeciphered and we have no idea what their language was like. Like I’d be at a loss even how to come up with personal names... Or are they assumed to be totally Hellenized by this point?
Thanasis Kinias
2024-07-07 20:22:25 +0000 UTC
