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Author | : John Chadwick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1990-09-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521398305 |
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The story of Michael Ventris and his decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script.
Author | : John Chadwick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107691761 |
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Revealing the secrets of Linear B uncovers fascinating details of an ancient civilisation.
Author | : Andrew Robinson |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0500770778 |
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“Highly readable . . . a fitting tribute to the quiet outsider who taught the professionals their business and increased our knowledge of the human past.”—Archaeology Odyssey More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets in the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective, and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how Ventris finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system.
Author | : Anna P. Judson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108494722 |
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Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.
Author | : John Chadwick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Explains what is known about the ancient writing systems used by Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.
Author | : J.T. Hooker |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991-06-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780906515624 |
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This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing are discusses, and Ventris' decipherment of Linear B is described and the Mycenaean dialect of Greek is examined. In Part two, the reader is taken through a number of important Linear B texts. These are presented first in a 'normalised' transcription of the Linear B characters, so as to induce familiarity with the lay-out of the original texts, secondly in transliteration, and thirdly in translation where this is possible.
Author | : Ester Salgarella |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108479383 |
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Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Author | : Margalit Fox |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062228889 |
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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
Author | : Barbara A. Olsen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131774795X |
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Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women’s tasks, holdings, and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE, identifying how Mycenaean women functioned in the economic institutions where they were best attested - production, property control, land tenure, and cult. Analysing all references to women in the Mycenaean documents, the book focuses on the ways in which the economic institutions of these Bronze Age palace states were gendered and effectively extends the framework for the study of women in Greek antiquity back more than 400 years. Throughout, the book seeks to establish whether gender practices were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed from site to site and to gauge the relationship of the roles and status of Mycenaean women to their Archaic and Classical counterparts to test if the often-proposed theories of a more egalitarian Bronze Age accurately reflect the textual evidence. The Linear B tablets offer a unique, if under-utilized, point of entry into women’s history in ancient Greece, documenting nearly 2000 women performing over fifty task assignments. From their decipherment in 1952 one major gap in the scholarly record remained: a full accounting of the women who inhabited the palace states and their tasks, ranks, and economic contributions. Women in Mycenaean Greece fills that gap recovering how class, rank, and other social markers created status hierarchies among women, how women as a group functioned relative to men, and where different localities conformed or diverged in their gender practices.
Author | : Anna Morpurgo Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789042924031 |
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