Browsing Aegean Scholarship at UT by Issue Date
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Approaches to the performance of the Odyssey
(2010-08)This report examines different approaches to the performance of the Odyssey. The first approach focuses on the internal evidence of the Odyssey, looking at how the Homer’s poems define the singer as a type. The second ... -
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, ... -
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 ...
