Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cueniform to the Alphabet

History

Hooker, J.T.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Univ. Of California Pr.

Mycenaean Greece (States and cities of ancient Greece)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Reading the Past)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

British Museum Press

Reading the Past : Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet

British Museum Pubns Ltd

<p>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.</p>

Linear B: An Introduction

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Bristol Classical Press

The Coming of the Greeks

In three essays the author addresses some of the major disputes at the heart of our understanding of the `coming of the Greeks'. The first paper examines the conclusion of Ernst Grumach that the Greeks entered the Aegean in a single movement at a late date, moving from the Danube basin. The second essay scrutinizes Colin Renfrew and Marija Gimbutas' hypotheses about the origins and dispersal of the earliest Greeks. The final paper discusses Robert Drew's theories about the connection between the archaeological evidence for horse-drawn chariots in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, and the movement of ancient peoples.

Ancient Civilizations

Regina Books

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