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Author : Ester Salgarella
Release : 2020-10
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aegean Linear Script(s) by : Ester Salgarella
Download or read book Aegean Linear Script(s) written by Ester Salgarella. This book was released on 2020-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary examination of the transmission process of Linear A to Linear B script.
Author : Ester Salgarella
Release : 2020-10-01
Genre : Foreign Language Study
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 163/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Aegean Linear Script(s) by : Ester Salgarella
Download or read book Aegean Linear Script(s) written by Ester Salgarella. This book was released on 2020-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Linear A and B.
Author : Philippa Steele
Release : 2017-08-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 454/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Relations Between Scripts by : Philippa Steele
Download or read book Understanding Relations Between Scripts written by Philippa Steele. This book was released on 2017-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.
Author : Philippa Steele
Release : 2017-08-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Relations Between Scripts by : Philippa Steele
Download or read book Understanding Relations Between Scripts written by Philippa Steele. This book was released on 2017-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Relations Between Scripts examines the writing systems of the ancient Aegean and Cyprus in the second and first millennia BC, principally Cretan ‘Hieroglyphic’, Linear A, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan and the Cypriot Syllabary. These scripts, of which some are deciphered and others are not, are known to be related to each other. However, the details of their relationships with each other have remained poorly understood and this will be the first volume dedicated solely to this issue. Nine papers aim to reach a better appreciation of relationships between writing systems than has been possible in previous research, through an interdisciplinary dialogue that takes account of both features of the writing systems and the contextual factors affecting the way in which writing was passed on. Each individual contribution furthers this aim by presenting the latest research on the Aegean scripts, demonstrating the great advances in our understanding of script relations that are possible through such detailed and innovative studies.
Author : John Chadwick
Release : 1990-09-13
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis The Decipherment of Linear B by : John Chadwick
Download or read book The Decipherment of Linear B written by John Chadwick. This book was released on 1990-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close collaborator in the momentous discovery. In revealing the secrets of Linear B it offers a valuable survey of late Minoan and Myceanean archaeology, uncovering fascinating details of the religion and economic history of an ancient civilisation.
