This is a thing that I have been wondering for a little while, as I find the whole wide scale collapse extremely fascinating, and for what I understand from what we know the epics were told orally for several centuries before written down in the way we know them actually.

That begs the question though, how much of the tales is indeed an echo of the troubled times of the end of more complex Mycenaean civilization? Not an accurate account of course, but as a sort of a post apocalyptic tale of the great times that were no more.

Thanks for the time, and sorry for any typos, english is not my first language