Browsing Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) by Title
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Melidoni
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Michael Ventris Papers Finding Aid
(2007)The publications, manuscripts, and correspondence of Michael Ventris, the man credited with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952. Correspondence includes letters with various colleagues and associates, primarily Emmett L. ... -
Michael Ventris's Blueprint: Letters reveal how a British architect and two American scholars worked to decipher a Bronze Age script and read the earliest writings in western civilization
(Discovery: Research and Scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin, 1993)An article written for the 40th anniversary of Michael Ventris' decipherment of Linear B as writing a Bronze Age form of the Greek language. Written for a general audience, it situates Ventris within the scholarly milieu ... -
Mycenaean Militarism from a Textual Perspective. Onomastics in Context: lawos, damos, klewos
(1999)In this paper, after surveying the Linear B textual evidence that demonstrates palatial concern for centralized control and organization of military equipment and personnel, Palaima uses the evidence of onomastics and of ... -
Mycenaean religion at Knossos
(2011-08)This dissertation examines the archaeological and textual evidence for religion at the site of Knossos during the Mycenaean phases of administration (LM II-LM IIIB1). Several methodological issues in the nature of the ... -
Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View
(2007)In this paper, delivered at the 11th International Aegean Conference, Palaima responds to the negative appraisals of Mycenaean palace-states and their rulers by Deger-Jalkotzy, Sherratt, and Kopcke. -
The Nature of the Mycenaean Wanax: Non-Indo-European Origins and Priestly Functions
(Université de Liège, Histoire de l' art et archéologie de la Grèce antique; University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, 1995)The wanax is the central figure of authority in Mycenaean society. This much is clear from studies of the references to wanax in the Linear B tablets, interpretation of the history of the use of the term wanax in Homer and ... -
A New Linear B Inscription from the Land Down Under: AUS HO(ME) Bo 2008
(2008)Gag paper on a fictitious Linear B boomerang, given at the 12th International Aegean Conference held in Melbourne. -
Nostalgic
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OL Zh I: QVOVSQVE TANDEM?
(2002)In this chapter, contained within the archaeological report on the site of Kafkania in the northwestern Peloponnese, Palaima critiques the hypothesis that the "Kafkania pebble" can be dated to the Middle Helladic period ... -
Olynthos
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Panormos
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Pant'agatha : commodities in Levantine-Aegean trade during the Persian period, 6-4th c. B.C.
(2002-08)The primary focus of this study is to ascertain the identification and origins of the commodities in trade between the Levant and Aegean during the Persian period, ca. 540-330 B.C. Using Semitic and Greek textual sources, ... -
Pelion
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Poetry
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The ra-wa-ke-ta, ministerial authority and Mycenaean cultural identity
(2006)The ra-wa-ke-ta is a key authority figure in Mycenaean society. The traditional interpretation of this official as the military commander of the state was based primarily on the etymology of his title (whose verbal element ... -
The sea as a two-way passage between life and death in Greek mythology
(2008-05)The sea has two major roles in Greek mythology. It is associated with the voyage into Hades, and as the primordial water, Oceanus, it represents vitality and even eternal life. Until now, scholars have viewed these two ... -
Seaweed
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Sense and sensibility: the experience of poikilia in archaic and classical greek thought
(2016-05)This dissertation comprises a study of ancient aesthetics and sensory experience by focusing on the concept of poikilia in archaic and classical Greek literature. As a term that characterizes a seemingly disparate array ...
