 Linguistically, a few verses of the "Iliad" suggest great antiquity, because they only fit the meter if projected back into Mycenaean Greek, in part due to the classical loss of the digamma; this trace of archaic language suggests a poetic tradition spanning the Greek Dark Ages.On the other hand, there are well-known interpolations in the text we have.Even though Homer was Ionian, the "Iliad" reflects the geography known to the Mycenaean Greeks, showing detailed knowledge of the mainland but not extending to the Ionian Islands or Anatolia, which suggests that the "Iliad" reproduces an account of events handed down by tradition, to which the author did not add his own geographical knowledge.