Illustrations, Maps, Foreword

aryballos: p. xii
pyxis: p. xiii

Linear B: Bronze Age version of Ancient Greec, p. xxxvi.

Linear A: has never been deciphered; translated; Crete, Minoan, King Minos

Bronze Age Greeks (Homer):
Achaio (Achaeans)
Danaoi (Danaans)
Argeioi (Argives) -- Helen was an Argive nymph.

Mycenaeans: not coined until 19th century.

Linear B -- example: PA - MA - CO
        transliteration: PHAR - MA - CON -- pharmacon ("useful little things")
        "p" must be a "ph"

How to measure beauty, New Scientist: millihelen

Homer's characters: they think like modern man; dress like cavemen
Helen: created at a time before GOOD and EVIL were regarded as distinct entities

Helen: embraces both. 

Is it safe to say that Helen was "invented" by Homer?

800 BC: all societies were experimental, p. 5
        these experimental societies were all being measured again the "Age of Heroes"
        the "Age of Heroes":  the Iliad and the Odyssey

            the epoch of Helen
            the epoch of the Gods

    *** most important figure of this age = Helen; female;
        orea Elena: beautiful Helen

Printing press to England, Westminster, 1476
    the first book printed in English
    The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, p. 7
        recuyell: collection

Helen-Hunting

pre-histroy:
Helen: of the pre-history age
1300 - 1000: Linear B
1000 - 800: no writing
800 -- : Greek writing

Linear B clay tablets: accidentally preserved by fires!!

Linear B: Bronze Age: bureaucracy

Helen's Age: pre-history

Linear B considered pre-history.

Troad: coastal buffer zone of modern day Turkey