4). When the Mycenaean civilization disappeared in the thirteenth century B.C., the Linear B system of writing simultaneously disappeared. The following few centuries were apparently a time of non-literacy in Greece. As noted by Havelock: "No evidence is available for the use of Linear B after the fall of Mycenae, or for the introduction of the Greek alphabet at any date earlier than the last third of the eighth century B.C." (Havelock, 1978, p. 9). Thus, present-day historians known even less about this time than they do about the Mycenaean period which preceded it. Nevertheless, it can be assumed that some kind of cultural activity was taking place during these "Dark Ages." In this regard, Havelock points out that these centuries "were 'dark' only in the sense that so much about them is unknown" (p. 10).
A revival of Greek culture began to occur in the ninth century B.C. According to Dover, "between 800 and 700 BC, the Greek world comes to life for us in a new form" (1981, p. 2). It was during that time that an alphabetic style of writin
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