Comparison between 5 words in Mycenaean Linear B & Arcado-Cypriot Linear C, using the 22 syllabograms we have seen so far: Click to ENLARGE:For your entertainment and, if you like, instruction, here is a table of 5 words in the Mycenaean Greek dialect in Linear B and the same words in its closest cousin, Arcado-Cypirot in Linear C. As you can see from these examples, the syllabograms for DA or TA (there is no DA series in Linear C), PA, NA & TO look similar in each of the syllabaries. These 5 words also serve to illustrate that Linear B & C words (vocabulary) are very similar, and in many instances, precisely the same. Enjoy! Richard
Comparison between 5 words in Mycenaean Linear B & Arcado-Cypriot Linear C, using the 22 syllabograms we have seen so far
Sappho, spelled (in the dialect spoken by the poet) Psappho, (born c. 610, Lesbos, Greece — died c. 570 BCE). A lyric poet greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style.
Her language contains elements from Aeolic vernacular and poetic tradition, with traces of epic vocabulary familiar to readers of Homer. She has the ability to judge critically her own ecstasies and grief, and her emotions lose nothing of their force by being recollected in tranquillity.
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