Reading Linear B: Volume 1, an Introduction to the Writing System and Mycenaean Greek

Bendall, Lisa Maria

Cambridge University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009336437

Full Description

This book, which draws on Lisa Bendall's lectures over three decades, provides an engaging and accessible survey of everything students need to know to read and understand texts in Linear B. As John Chadwick noted, the Linear B scholar must be 'not just an epigraphist, not just a linguist, not just an economic historian and archaeologist; ideally he or she...must be all these things simultaneously'. Volume 1 introduces the student to the writing system and the language, especially the phonology and morphology. It also explains the formal aspects of the documents and gives guidance on the tools available to the student and scholar. Volume 2 will provide a guide to using the documents to understand the Mycenaean world.

Contents

Part I. Linear B and Mycenaean Greek: 1. Discovery, decipherment, and context of Linear B; 2. Linear B facts, figures, and epigraphy; 3. The Linear B writing system; 4. Mycenaean Greek.