The Decipherment of Linear B - Hardcover

Chadwick, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521045991 ISBN 13: 9780521045995

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970

Synopsis

1970. 164 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Orange pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Dust jacket attached to boards and protected by plastic wrapper.

About this title

Book Description

Fascinating details of the religious and economic history of an ancient pre-Hellenic civilization are revealed in this celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B from Mycenaean Greek in the 1950s.

Review

'In this present short book - lucid, concise and admirable - Chadwick tells us something of Ventris and his mind, and of the problems involved in the decipherment of Minoan-Mycenaean scripts. It is written for the layman and very well written. It is not only an account of a startling piece of philological and archaeological research, but a simple, moving human story.' The Spectator

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521045991
• ISBN 13: 9780521045995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 174