Reading Linear B: Volume 1, An Introduction to the Writing System and Mycenaean Greek
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-33644-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-33644-4 (ISBN)
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Studying Linear B cuts across disciplines including archaeology, epigraphy, linguistics, and historical economics. It can be challenging for an individual to gain sufficient backgrounding in these various areas, and this book provides the fullest guide for the beginning student. Volume 1 focuses mainly on the writing system and the language.
This book, which draws on Lisa Bendall's lectures over three decades, provides an engaging and accessible survey of everything students need to know to read and understand texts in Linear B. As John Chadwick noted, the Linear B scholar must be 'not just an epigraphist, not just a linguist, not just an economic historian and archaeologist; ideally he or she…must be all these things simultaneously'. Volume 1 introduces the student to the writing system and the language, especially the phonology and morphology. It also explains the formal aspects of the documents and gives guidance on the tools available to the student and scholar. Volume 2 will provide a guide to using the documents to understand the Mycenaean world.
This book, which draws on Lisa Bendall's lectures over three decades, provides an engaging and accessible survey of everything students need to know to read and understand texts in Linear B. As John Chadwick noted, the Linear B scholar must be 'not just an epigraphist, not just a linguist, not just an economic historian and archaeologist; ideally he or she…must be all these things simultaneously'. Volume 1 introduces the student to the writing system and the language, especially the phonology and morphology. It also explains the formal aspects of the documents and gives guidance on the tools available to the student and scholar. Volume 2 will provide a guide to using the documents to understand the Mycenaean world.
Lisa Maria Bendall s Sinclair and Rachel Hood Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor for Archaeology at Keble College. She has published numerous articles and Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World (2007), and helped to edit Sinclair Hood's The Masons' Marks of Minoan Knossos (2020). She curated the Ventris-Chadwick Exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Bendall 2003, 2013).
Part I. Linear B and Mycenaean Greek: 1. Discovery, decipherment, and context of Linear B; 2. Linear B facts, figures, and epigraphy; 3. The Linear B writing system; 4. Mycenaean Greek.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-33644-4 / 1009336444 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-33644-4 / 9781009336444 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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