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[ikhet_sekhmet]

I'm trying to work my way through some of the collective noun of podcasts that I've downloaded over the past few years. One, a 2007 interview with archaeologist Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, is still available to download, and as a transcript:

New Light on the Greek 'Dark Age'

My ears pricked up at the mention that before Athena was a Greek goddess, she was a Mycenean goddess, and possibly a Minoan goddess before that. And she's not the only Olympian whose name appears in Linear B. I had no idea. V. interesting!

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Alas, my knowledge of Greek myth is pretty spotty! But yeah, of all the deities to not originally come from Athens! :D The podcast reckons at least eight of the twelve Olympian gods turn up in Linear B. Blimey!