John Chadwick

A plain text in transliteration of the Linear B tablets from Knossos. Since the first publication of these tablets in 1952, various scholars worked to improve the texts. The results of their researches were published in successive editions of The Knossos Tablets: A Transliteration. This 1971 fourth edition completely replaced the third of 1964. It contains the texts of many fragments previously discarded as unreadable, and several hundred improved texts resulting from joins between fragments. In addition, the original of every tablet has been closely scrutinised and numerous improvements in the readings have been made. The system of classification has been modified, and many more tablets are now assigned to series, and for the first time there was an attempt to reconstruct the original filing system of the archive. The scribal hand is noted where it can be identified. The book is indispensable for all scholars who wish to work directly on this material.

Etsitkö jännitystä, uusia näkökulmia tai rentouttavaa lukuelämystä? Tutustu kirjakategorioihimme ja löydä seuraava suosikkikirjasi.

Historien om hvordan Michael Ventris i 1950-årene løste språkgåten linear B har blitt en legende. Den begynte allerede da den unge språkbegavelsen (som kjøpte sin første bok om de egyptiske hieroglyfene allerede som syvåring) 14 år gammel overvar et foredrag av gresk-arkeologiens grand old man, Arthur Evans. Den minoiske høykulturen på Kreta gikk under i 1450 f. Kr. Under de mange utgravningene fant man flere skriftsystemer som ingen klarte å tolke, blant dem linear B. En skriftgåte der både det underliggende språket og skrifttegnene er ukjent, representerer den aller største utfordring. Det var den unge arkitekten og jagerflygeren Ventris' usedvanlige visuelle hukommelse og hans sans for struktur og systematikk, kombinert med kryptologiske metoder foredlet under andre verdenskrig, som gjorde at han til slutt forstod hvilke fonetiske verdier de ulike tegnene hadde, og at det underliggende språket var arkaisk gresk. Ventris døde ved en tragisk ulykke kort etter, og boka er skrevet av hans kollega og venn, greskeksperten John Chadwick.

In their 1953 book, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Michael Ventris (1922–56) and John Chadwick (1920–98) demonstrated that the previously mysterious script Linear B was, in fact, a syllabic form of written Greek, thereby revolutionizing ancient history and linguistics. In this second edition, originally published in 1973, Chadwick examines how the study of the subject has expanded since 1953 and includes some of the material discovered since the initial publication. This book continues to be a valuable part of Classical scholarship and will be of interest to Classicists of every discipline.

H. G. Liddell and R. Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (revised and augmented by H. S. Jones in 1940) has been the essential tool of advanced Greek scholars for 150 years; in order to update it a new Supplement has been published (OUP 1996) replacing that of 1968. In this provocative reconsideration both of its lexicographical principles and of individual articles, John Chadwick examines the need for further revision and expansion of the volume through a re-examination of the classical Greek vocabulary. A series of notes are presented, making important and stimulating contributions to the study of classical Greek lexicography, and offering many new interpretations of passages from familiar authors based upon a lexicographical approach. Essential reading for all scholars of classical Greek.