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doesn't have anything to do with the Mycenaean period.
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His view is much, if not most,
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of what we are told about the Homeric world comes, as he says,
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in the tenth and in the ninth centuries.
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One other thing that he doesn't mention but I think is worth mentioning.
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Many a scholar are very reluctant to admit
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that there's any Mycenaean stuff here,
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although they cannot fail to concede
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that some of the physical implements that are found
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at Mycenaean sites are precisely like what Homer says.
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But I think you can go a little bit beyond that.
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Some scholars have pointed out that in Book II of the Iliad