Aegean Scholarship at UT
Recent Submissions
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Kosmos in the Mycenaean Tablets: The Response of the Mycenaean 'Scribes' to the Mycenaean Culture of Kosmos
(2014)Paper delivered at the 13th Annual International Aegean Conference at the University of Copenhagen. Palaima considers the idiosyncrasies of individual Mycenaean scribal hands in light of palace architecture and the material ... -
KO Ko 2010 Cloth Fragments of the Rapinewiad
(2012)Humorous paper delivered at the 13th International Aegean Conference at the University of Copenhagen. -
The Significance of Mycenaean Words Relating to Meals, Meal Rituals, and Food
(2008)An actual piece delivered at the 12th International Aegean Conference. Palaima discusses the Linear B and historical Greek terminology for 'meals' in order to arrive at a clearer view of what the data for banqueting were ... -
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. -
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. -
Bob Dylan: Our Homer
(2006-03-01)The thesis of Palaima's presentation is that, first of all, more than any other American popular artist during the last half century, Bob Dylan has the qualities of an oral poet; and second, that Dylan’s songs serve the ... -
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 ... -
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing. The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing
(2000)Catalogue of an exhibition conducted in conjunction with the Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium held at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. This program features brief histories of the CIPEM Mycenological ... -
Linear A > Linear B
(1999)Palaima and Sikkenga compare Linear B with Linear A and the Cypriote Syllabary. Their chapter, part of a collection of studies in Aegean archaeology made in honor of Malcolm H. Wiener, draws out the distinctive features ... -
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 ... -
Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?
(1998)This paper given in honor of John T. Killen concerns the relationship between the written and the spoken word within the narrowly defined literate administrative record-keeping systems of Mycenaean palatial centers and ... -
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 ... -
The Last Days of the Pylos Polity
(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)A conference paper published in Aegaeum, vol. 12, entitled "Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age." This volume comprises the proceedings of the 5th International Aegean Conference, held at the University ... -
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 ... -
The individual and the Mycenaean state : agency and prosopography in the Linear B texts from Pylos
(2006)This dissertation examines the relationship between the individual and the state in the Mycenaean palatial period of Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. 1500-1200 BC). The standard view of the Mycenaean state is one of a static, ... -
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 ... -
Economic Interplay Among Households And States
(2013-07)This Forum has made progress on both its stated research themes: control of craft production and the newer topic of markets. My comments take up the issues of household economy, state control, and markets. First, I discuss ... -
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 ... -
Aegean Bronze Age literacy and its consequences
(2011-08)The Mycenaeans used writing for a variety of administrative purposes. The archaeological evidence for writing suggests that it was a highly restricted technology. Mycenaeans used the Linear B script to write clay tablets, ...
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