Linear B and Related Scripts (Reading the Past, Vol. 1)

Chadwick, John

ISBN 10: 0520060199 / ISBN 13: 9780520060197

Published by University of California Press, 1987

About this Item

[From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Linear B and Related Scripts (Reading the Past, Vol. 1)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520060199
• ISBN 13: 9780520060197
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 3 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient History/Classical Studies

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Synopsis

In 1952, Minoan Linear B was deciphered and shown to conceal an early form of the Greek language. This book tells the story of how Linear B was discovered, deciphered, and interpreted.