Odyssey

Ever since the disruption of the trade in the eastern mediterranean the mycenaeans were unable to read or write. The reason being for this interruption of trade was assumed to be the peasants upriseing against the mycenaeans leaders and causing their great temples to fall. But I think when the odyssey was written it gave the mycenaeans a chance to rebuild what was lost during the big kerfuffle. So when they wrote the odyssey it was crucial to write it because it was their new language. Maybe thats why odysseus is a hero not just in the book but in reality too, because if you think about it the book was their new language it gave the mycenaeans a fresh start for what was lost.