27297 - If you’re reading

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

If you’re reading
the Iliad
linearly
without
linear B
knowledge
in actual fact
Mycenaean,
you will merely see
a text
whereas
with the syllabograms
you’ll discover
that there is
a vocabulary
as characteristic
as the tripods
which doesn’t merely
refer to civilization
but it brings to life
its actual substance
through the myth
which constitutes
the foundation
of history
therefore with the element
integrated
within the text
as a subject
you will recognize
what you thought
that you knew.