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is the recipient of a long list of offerings including oxen, sheep, goats, pigs, wheat, wine, honey, unguents, wool and cloth. 6 From the perspective offered by these documents, Poseidon appears to be the strongest of all the gods in Pylos. This picture well suits Odyssey 3.43-4, which tells how Telemachus and Athena (disguised as Mentor) join in celebrating the festival of Poseidon at Pylos. Compared with the importance of Poseidon, Zeus does not appear as particularly consequential in the tablet documents. Tablet Tn 316 records his ostensibly unexceptional nature: he is just an ordinary god, receiving the same quantity of offerings as the other deities, some of whom may have been only minor gods since they are already unknown in classical times (as mentioned above). Given Zeus' later sovereignty over the universe, it is undeniable that his characterisation has undergone a major transformation by the beginning of the Archaic Period. If we attempt to delineate the significance of Zeus in the Linear B Tablets, it lies surely in his name: among the deities written on the tablets, only Zeus can claim to be etymologically Indo-European in origin. As I discuss in Chapter V below, many o

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Author

Noriko Yasumura

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472519672

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History