>>22713260>also according to Greek Mythology, Phoenicia was founded by Phoenix, son of Agenor and grandson of Poseidon and Libya>the writer of 1 Maccabees 12 who inspired Josephus plagiarized the story of Epher, grandson of Abraham, having been one of the companions and father-in-law of Hercules (ancestor of the Doric/Spartan Royal Houses) in Libya from the Berber Hero Sufax, son of the Libyan Queen Tinjis with Hercules, who also had a son called Diodorus like the daughter of Epher with HerculesThe sea peoples were probably Mycenaean raiders and pirates or kings and princes who went and aggressively colonized western Asia Minor. This would explain why there were so many Greek speaking populations there during the dark ages period, and in the classical era.
There is also some basic misconception that the bronze age collapse was simultaneous with the collapse of the Mycenean palatial states with the Return of the Heracleidae.
>"Reconciliation of all these different theories seems out of the question... the current state of our knowledge of the Greek dialects can accommodate Indo-Europeans entering Greece at any time between 2200 and 1600 BC to emerge later as Greek speakers." -JP MalloryThe above quote somewhat converges with my own theory, the Myceneans were not really freinds with each other, but constantly fought one another, except when they fought a foreign civilization like the Hittites or Egypt, in which they would have likely formed large coalitions like in the fictionalized telling of the quite historical Trojan war.
I think this would explain the devastation of the Peloponnese. Quite simply another Mycenaean warlord went conquered and wrecked everything in his path there. I think this is confirmed by the fact that Dorians were a Linear B speaking people, and like with the myth of the Heracleides they were most probably led by princes/warlords of Mycenaean origin.
