Homer and the Mycenaean Tablets

Now that more than a year has elapsed since the publication of Dr Michael Ventris' brilliant discovery that the Mycenaean tablets inscribed in Linear B contained Greek, a preliminary answer may be given to the question of their bearing on the interpretation of Homer. My purpose here is to indicate where our 8th century Iliad and Odyssey agree with the tablets and where they differ

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