Daily Life in Mycenaean Greece
Summary
This episode explores the daily lives, politics, and culture of Mycenaean Greece, using Linear B tablets to reveal a complex bureaucratic society. The hosts discuss palace administration, the rigid social hierarchy, and the economic roles of workers, including enslaved women in textile production. They also examine warfare, religion, and trade, highlighting the Uluburun shipwreck as evidence of a cosmopolitan Bronze Age economy. Finally, the episode addresses the sudden collapse of these palace states around 1200 BCE, which led to the loss of literacy and the mythologization of the era.
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