There is a huge difference betwen the usage of "Greek" in the past and English today. English came in usage through invasion and colonisation of many countries and places and especially it started its appearance after the creation of the English state-nation, which can not be applied for the antiquity. "Greeks" whatever it meant in the past, not only never invaded someone, but they were the invaded ones, EXCACTLY by these Romans, to that extend that they fade out from the scene of the history thereafter, if they ever existed on the first place as a 'ethne' in the way we determine a "ethne" today..
I have no answer about this. If you are "refering" to Ventris ""decipherement"" of Linear B, I have full confidence he was wrong, or at least his conclusion was far-fetched, but if I had to give an "educated guess", I would say they were a culture similar to Asian one, based on archeological findings in that area.
SO that means that deny Troyan war, Greek colonisation 1, Greek colonisation 2, Persian wars, Alexander and Pyrros?
I guess Myceneans invaded Myceane from Troy, Emporium in Spain was Built by Asians as also Phasis in caucas, and Alexander was a Persian who invated Makedonia, and Pyrros was a Roman who lost his army in effort to conquer Greece, right?
is that you are telling me?
Question to explain us more and develop your 'theory'
1.
Ομαιμον ομογλωττον ομοθρησκον κανων kanon was written by who?
2. ok ancient Greeks never existed,
DO MODERN GREEKS EXIST AS AN ETHNOS WITHE TODAY DETERMINATION?
I think you just spamming something in purpose with no Idea how it was, you deny but you have nothing to show us instead, deny for deny, I wonder why?
I gave you a step to explain your theory and tell us nothing,
no proves, no opponent side, nothing just spam of your deny,
If you have something to tell us ok,
if your purpose is to deny they why you mixed in aforum like that, to tell us that we are the idiots and your deny is like Divine light a Holy Ghost? but to where? explain more your theory,
what are you afraid?
ok show us the non clergy language that existed at homer's time.
so lets take a look at that you call Asian
Mycenean
Thracian
Do you believe that Both Thracian and Mycenean were Asians?
If yes then you just supported a theory that IE came from Anatolia much after the arsenic bronze.
do you know that Syrmia and Vatin Cultures are connected with Mycenean and Minoan?
not me archaiologists say so.
So Greeks never colonise and never expand in Asia Africa,
and Greeks spoke an Asian language is your theory,
and they learn a clergy language with out following that God (Taranis Thor Perun) so to do what?
Homer spoke an unknown Asian language learn so perfect the Greek, one the most difficult and rich in vocabulary and forms, Forced by Church and Clergy, just to write his poems? and people who spoke an Asian language kept them as save as they could, telling their children every night a story in a language that they did not understand? is that you are telling us?
Is that you are saying us?
Alexander spoke an Asian unknown language but spread Greek to India due to a clergy demand?
is that you are telling us?
and again I ask you, If ancient Greeks were not an Ethicity what where they?
to which nation were Relatives?
are modern Greeks an Ethnicity?
Ethnos ΕΘΝΟΣ is a greek word and means cousins,
ΕΔΝΟΣ = cousin
-ΙΔΗΣ = tribe-family name
Germans is Germanoi poss case Germanidon Female Germanides
EDI is the relative in Thracian
Do you understand that automatically you kick Vocedol Vatin Thracians to an Asian culture?
do you realize that automatically you speak that IE came from minor Asia to balkans?
if you know Greek-Roman wars then you understand why,
they start from South Italy and did not finish even after Mithridateian wars,
Cleopatra was Egypt's Queen but was a Greek speaker,
if you search History of sil road you will see that some Greek cities never passed under Roman control East of Parthia,
what was easier for Romans? to write Latin and in language that existed and spoken and find them an alphabet like Cyrill and Method? or to leave Greek as primary,
understand that known world spoke Greek that time as second language,
It was more easier Roman officers to learn Greek, cause from Spain to India some locals knew that language for centuries or milleniums, than to force local population learn Latin
Alaska belongs to USA but still Russian are spoken there,
in British colonies after 1948 the English speaking people are more today than were under English occupation, cause that time English was the language of the 'foreign intruder', you did not the language of the enemy, that is why Romans adopted Greek as international language,
even Islam did not manage to rip Greek language from Midle East were no Latin was Spoken, until the crusades.