Post originally by Kester Pelagius at 2004-07-02 10:46:16
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>>I'm not sure I should comment on a supplement I haven't read, but... In late Bronze Age Greece, circa 1200 BC, the overwhelming majority were illiterate. The great philosophers, playwrights, poets, etc. came from a much later period.<<

Perhaps, yet literacy does not spring out of a void. Witness the Linear-A and Linear-B scripts. Tablets bearing the inscriptions of said scripts have been found both on Crete and Mainland Greece, though the largest finds have, I believe, have come from the excavations at Pylos and Knossos. Thus indicating scripts, and thus by extention a literacy of some form, were in place during the Mycenean period.

Would you not agree?