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We even learned the names of two oxen
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owned by Terzarro:
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Glossy and Blackie.
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The records make it perfectly clear that the kingdoms of Pylos
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and Knossos
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were bureaucratic monarchies of a type unexpected in Greece,
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but in many ways similar to
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some contemporary and earlier kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean.
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It is very unlike anything we associate with the Greeks,
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or anything that ever again existed in the Greek world,
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and that's really the point I want to make.
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Although these people are Greeks,