Table of Contents

Preface; Note on marginal annotations; Note on the bibliographies; Note on consistency; Note on absolute values of the symbols for weight and volume; Note on translations; List of abbreviations; Part I. History, Script, Language and Culture; 1. The Archaeological and Historical Context John Bennet; 2. Discovery and Decipherment Michael Ventris; 3. Syllabic Scripts in The Aegean and Cyprus in The Second and First Millennia Jean-Pierre Olivier; 4.1-5. The Mycenaean Writing System Rupert Thompson And Torsten Meißner; 4.6. The Absolute Values of the Symbols for Weight Pia De Fidio; 4.7. The Absolute Values of the Symbols for Volume Pia De Fidio; 5. The Linear B Documents Maurizio Del Freo; 6. The Mycenaean Language Rupert Thompson; 7. Geography John Bennet; 8. Economy Pia De Fidio; 9. Mycenaean Society and Political Systems Cynthia Shelmerdine; 10.1. Mycenaean Religion John Killen; 10.2. Mycenaean and Classical Greek Religion Robert Parker; Part II. Drawings of Selected Tablets.

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An authoritative survey of recent developments in the study of the Linear B tablets deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952.

About the Author

JOHN T. KILLEN F.B.A., is Emeritus Professor of Mycenaean Greek, Cambridge University. He collaborated with John Chadwick, Jean-Pierre Olivier and others on the Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos (4 vols, 1986-98), and his collected papers on Linear B were edited by Maurizio Del Freo (3 vols., 2015).