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Greeks And Freaks Scripture
SUPERNATURALWritten by:Directed by:Air Date: March 27, 2013NOWNighttime.Scene opens at a waterfall.Music is blaring on the radio.The camera pans over the top of a red station wagon parked in the parking lot that overlooks the waterfall and river it’s flowing into. As the song plays on the radio the camera is now inside the car and we watch a couple of teenagers make out. The camera is now outside the car towards the left front side and we see a BLUE VAN drive in from the adjoining road into the parking lot.
The camera moves back inside the car and the teenagers are still making out. A shadowy figure runs by the car.
Greek Freak Draft
Origin of the Linear B ScriptLinear B is the oldest preserved form of written Greek that we know of. By the time we first meet this writing system, Greece and different areas of the western coast of were already Greek-speaking.
Linear B was used to write an form of Greek known as Mycenaean Greek, which was the official dialect of the Mycenaean. The inscriptions found in Crete appear to be older than those discovered in mainland Greece. The oldest confirmed Linear B tablets are the so-called Room of the Tablets from Knossos and have been dated to c.1450-1350 BCE, while the tablets found at Pylos have been dated to c.
This suggests that the Linear B script was devised in Knossos (Crete), somewhere around 1450 BCE when the Mycenaeans took control of Knossos, and spread from here to mainland Greece. Whether by peaceful annexation or armed invasion, we know that the was replaced, both in Crete and in mainland Greece, by the Mycenaean culture. Although most Linear B documents can be read today, some features of the writing system remain unclear.
Not all syllable signs have been determined conclusively.Long before the Mycenaeans took control of Knossos, the had a writing system in use known as, which was employed to represent the official Minoan language. Nothing certain is known about the Minoan language.
Its linguistic affiliation remains a mystery, but the general consensus is that the language was not Greek; probably it was not even part of the. Since Linear B shares many signs with the older Linear A, it has been inferred that Linear B came into existence when the scribes adapted Linear A to a new language: Greek. This idea is further supported by the fact that Linear B is poorly suited to writing Greek. For instance, Linear B is unable distinguish between short and long vowels and between r and l. As a result, words like 'leuka' (white) had to be written as re-u-ka. Another difficulty relates to the fact that Linear B cannot represent consonant clusters. Therefore, names such as 'Knossos' had to be written as ko-no-so and words like 'aksone' (axes) or 'demnia' (bed clothes) had to be written a-ko-so-ne and de-mi-ni-a respectively.
In some specific examples such as the word 'aiguptios' , written as a-ku-pi-ti-jo, the limitations of the script to represent Greek are fairly clear. Decipherment & content of the Linear B ScriptAlthough the first examples of Linear B texts were discovered early in the 20th century CE, these tablets were not published until 1952 CE. The meaning of Linear B texts remained surrounded by mystery until 1953 CE, the year when an architect named Michael Ventris managed to decipher the script.
Ventris interpreted the script as an early form of Greek, which was unexpected since most scholars at that time believed that Linear B represented a form of Minoan language different from Greek. Although most Linear B documents can be read today, some features of the writing system remain unclear. Not all syllable signs have been determined conclusively. Linear B texts are mostly of an administrative nature, often under the form of lists of goods, statements of delivery, and records of commercial transactions.
Tablets found at Pylos, for instance, provide details on the manufacture and distribution on palace-supervised commodities such as woollen and linen fabrics and perfume oils. Since the Mycenaean palaces performed not only an economic and political function but also a religious one, some of the deciphered Linear B texts are concerned with lists of religious offerings. These lists provide us with an idea of the type of items being offered (mainly foodstuff, including wine and olive oil) and also with the names of some of the gods and goddesses addressed.
Interestingly, many of the names used in Mycenaean times were the same names used for the deities of the classical Greek world:, and are just some examples. There is no certainty that there was cult continuity between Mycenaean times and classical times, but at least the names of several deities remained unchanged. A few examples of Linear B texts also mention chariots, armour, weapons, and soldiers getting ready for military campaigns. Decline of the Linear B ScriptAfter the collapse of the Mycenaean political order in c. 1200 BCE, the use of the Linear B script gradually diminished until it was fully abandoned around 1100 BCE. Literacy was completely lost in the Greek world until its return during the 8th century BCE, with the emergence of a new writing system: the.
The Linear B Script and the Greek are two completely different and unrelated writing systems, which reflects in a way how deeply Greece plunged into illiteracy and stagnation during the interval between the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization and the Greek, a time known as the.