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A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World. Volume 2

A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World. Volume 2

Morpurgo Davies, A.
Duhoux, Y.

Paperback

Series: Bibliothèque Des Cahiers de Linguistique de Louvain (Bcll), Book 127

Literary CriticismArchaeologyAncient Greece

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ISBN10: 9042924039
ISBN13: 9789042924031
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Aug 18 2011
Pages: 351
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabicscript which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC andprecedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least four hundred years.
Thetablets written in this script offer crucial information about theeconomy, administration, religion, institutions, etc. of the Mycenaeanperiod. But who wrote these texts? What types of texts were they? How canwe read them, understand them and interpret them? What do they teach usabout the history, economy, religion, society, geography, technology, andlanguage of the Mycenaean period?
This Companion aims atanswering these and other questions in a series of chapters written byinternationally recognised specialists in the subject, who not onlysummarise the results of current research but also try to explain theproblems which arise from the study of the texts and the methods which canbe used to solve them.
No Mycenologist can currently cover withauthority all the field and the Companion is aimed both at thebeginner who needs an introduction to the whole area and to advancedscholars (archaeologists, historians, classicists) who require anup-to-date account which can serve as a standard reference tool.
Reactionsto the first volume:
All Aegenists need to have this book. (JohnG. Younger, American Journal of Archaeology)
Un excellentinstrument, à tous les niveaux. (Francisco Aura Jorro, L'AntiquitéClassique)
We are awash with companions of varying compositionand quality. Arguably, many are superfluous; this one is not... Thecompanion under review seeks to make Linear B more accessible to studentsand interested scholars. It is far more complete, authoritative andup-to-date than any. (Dimitri Nakassis, The Classical Review)
Thebest reference work for the content of the Linear B texts, their language, their value, and the historical contexts that produced them; very usefulfor students. (Angelos Chaniotis, Ancient Crete: OxfordBibliographies Online Research Guide)

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