An old name for the Mycenean language before it was deciphered and discovered to be a form of Greek.
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fdddddddddddddddddddd Map of Minoan Crete The Minoans were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, prior to Helladic or Mycenaean culture (i. ... The Eteocretan (i. ... The Minoan language is a non-Hellenic language of Crete that was spoken before the invasion of Mycenaean armies. ... Linear A etched on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini. ... Map of Bronze Age Greece as described in Homers Iliad Mycenaean is the most ancient known form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, before the Dorian invasion. ...
So the voices of the Minoans, their stories, their history as they understood it, is lost to us.
The Minoans were, after all, a great mercantile people and they kept profoundly accurate records of their transactions.
Whatever happened, the Minoans, weakened by this catastrophe, seem to have been conquered by the Myceneans, who, influenced by the Aegean civilizations, had developed their own civilization on the Greek mainland.
For the Minoans produced a singular civilization in antiquity: one oriented around trade and bureaucracy with little or no evidence of a military state.
We call them the Myceneans after the best-preserved of their cities, and their greatest accomplishment, it would seem, was the destruction of a large commercial center across the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor: Troy.
For the Minoans also exported their culture as well as goods, and a derivative culture grew up on the mainland of Greece, the Myceneans, who were a war-like people.
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