The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B
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Author : Andrew Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2012-01-02
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B written by Andrew Robinson and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-02 with History categories.
First discovered in 1900, on clay tablets among the ruins of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete, Linear B script remained a mystery for over fifty years until 1952, when Michael Ventris discovered that its signs did not represent an unknown language as previously believed, but an archaic dialect of Greek, more than 500 years older than the Greek of Homer. This book tells the life story of Michael Ventris, an intriguing and contradictory man, a gifted linguist but a divided soul, together with that of his remarkable decipherment of Linear B. Dubbed the Everest of archaeology, the decipherment was all the more remarkable because Ventris was not a trained classical scholar but an architect who had first heard of Linear B as a schoolboy. An initial fascination became a lifelong obsession.
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B The Story Of Michael Ventris
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Author : Andrew Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Release Date : 2012-04-01
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B The Story Of Michael Ventris written by Andrew Robinson and has been published by Thames & Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Highly readable . . . a fitting tribute to the quiet outsider who taught the professionals their business and increased our knowledge of the human past.”—Archaeology Odyssey More than a century ago, in 1900, one of the great archaeological finds of all time was made in Crete. Arthur Evans discovered what he believed was the palace of King Minos, with its notorious labyrinth, home of the Minotaur. As a result, Evans became obsessed with one of the epic intellectual stories of the modern era: the search for the meaning of Linear B, the mysterious script found on clay tablets in the ruined palace. Evans died without achieving his objective, and it was left to the enigmatic Michael Ventris to crack the code in 1952. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but also that of the young man who deciphered it. Based on hundreds of unpublished letters, interviews with survivors, and other primary sources, Andrew Robinson’s riveting account takes the reader through the life of this intriguing and contradictory man. Stage by stage, we see how Ventris finally achieved the breakthrough that revealed Linear B as the earliest comprehensible European writing system.
The Decipherment Of Linear B
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Author : John Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-09-13
The Decipherment Of Linear B written by John Chadwick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-13 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The story of Michael Ventris and his decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script.
The Decipherment Of Linear B
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Author : John Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
The Decipherment Of Linear B written by John Chadwick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Revealing the secrets of Linear B uncovers fascinating details of an ancient civilisation.
The Undeciphered Signs Of Linear B
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Author : Anna P. Judson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
The Undeciphered Signs Of Linear B written by Anna P. Judson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.
Linear B
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Author : J.T. Hooker
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 1991-06-01
Linear B written by J.T. Hooker and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This introduction is suitable for the student with some knowledge of Greek who wishes to have access to Linear B material. Part One places the development of the Linear B script against its historical background; the earlier varieties of Aegean writing are discusses, and Ventris' decipherment of Linear B is described and the Mycenaean dialect of Greek is examined. In Part two, the reader is taken through a number of important Linear B texts. These are presented first in a 'normalised' transcription of the Linear B characters, so as to induce familiarity with the lay-out of the original texts, secondly in transliteration, and thirdly in translation where this is possible.
Linear B And Related Scripts
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Author : John Chadwick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Linear B And Related Scripts written by John Chadwick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Explains what is known about the ancient writing systems used by Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece.
The Riddle Of The Labyrinth
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Author : Margalit Fox
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-05-14
The Riddle Of The Labyrinth written by Margalit Fox and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with History categories.
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
The Mycenaean World
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Author : John Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1976-03-25
The Mycenaean World written by John Chadwick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-03-25 with History categories.
John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece.
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
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Author : Andrew Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2023-05-09
The Last Man Who Knew Everything written by Andrew Robinson and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with History categories.
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.